Re: doc fix for pg_stat_activity.backend_type

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.

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