Re: Online checksums patch - once again

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Online checksums patch - once again
Date: 2020-11-13 11:22:41
Message-ID: 84f00f4e-0c23-9138-9291-be0e5c30499e@iki.fi
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On 12/11/2020 15:17, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 5 Oct 2020, at 14:14, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>> I would expect the checksums worker to be automatically started at postmaster startup. Can we make that happen?
>
> A dynamic background worker has to be registered from a regular backend, so
> it's not entirely clear to me where in startup processing that would take
> place. Do you have any good suggestions?

Could you launch it from the startup process, in StartupXLOG()?
Does it have to be dynamic?

- Heikki

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