Re: Docs for 9.4's worker_spi?

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Seems there is no documentation for the 9.4 worker_spi contrib module. Is
> > this OK? The comment at the top of the C file says:
> >
> > * Sample background worker code that demonstrates various coding
> > * patterns: establishing a database connection; starting and committing
> > * transactions; using GUC variables, and heeding SIGHUP to reread
> > * the configuration file; reporting to pg_stat_activity; using the
> > * process latch to sleep and exit in case of postmaster death.
>
> worker_spi is not new in 9.4; it was added in 9.3 by Alvaro in commit
> da07a1e856511dca59cbb1357616e26baa64428e. I agree that it should be
> documented like all of the other contrib modules,

Uh. It's a code sample. I didn't ever consider documenting it was a
necessity, or I would have done it. I don't think it needs any
documentation now, either (in Docbook form I mean.)

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