From: | Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com |
Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: doc fix for pg_stat_activity.backend_type |
Date: | 2018-11-13 09:36:44 |
Message-ID: | CAA4eK1+xAfZFQD0GNKk+dJ_FMP+X_+pL_io5iL1bx11ixwxf+Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:04 PM John Naylor <jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 11/13/18, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:38 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 09:42:45PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> >> > Looks like it. A quick search revealed "parallel worker" and "logical
> >> > replication worker". src/test/modules/ also show "test_shm_mq" and
> >> > "worker_spi", but it seems those don't need to be publicly documented.
> >> > If that sounds right I'll update the patch to include the first two.
> >>
> >> Just wondering: do we actually need to include in the docs this list at
> >> all? This is a recipe to forget its update each time a new backend type
> >> is added.
> >>
> >
> > Sure, but how will we justify documenting (autovacuum launcher and
> > autovacuum worker) and not (logical replication launcher and logical
> > replication worker)? I think we can document the type of workers that
> > are part of core-server functionality. We can make some generic
> > statement on the workers that can be launched by extensions.
>
> How about something like the attached?
>
Don't you need to remove <literal>background worker</literal>?
+ In addition, extensions may have additional types.
How about: "In addition, background workers registered by extensions
may have additional types."?
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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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