Re: parallelizing the archiver

From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: parallelizing the archiver
Date: 2021-10-25 17:48:34
Message-ID: AEB31F5E-6387-4172-BA71-C0F97B95DCBA@amazon.com
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On 10/25/21, 10:18 AM, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 1:14 PM Bossart, Nathan <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com> wrote:
>> IIUC this would mean that archive modules that need to define GUCs or
>> register background workers would have to separately define a
>> _PG_init() and be loaded via shared_preload_libraries in addition to
>> archive_library. That doesn't seem too terrible to me, but it was
>> something I was trying to avoid.
>
> Hmm. That doesn't seem like a terrible goal, but I think we should try
> to find some way of achieving it that looks tidier than this does.

We could just treat archive_library as if it is tacked onto the
shared_preload_libraries list. I think I can make that look
relatively tidy.

Nathan

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