Re: Support worker_spi to execute the function dynamically.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 2:59 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 05:54:55PM +0900, Masahiro Ikeda wrote:
> > Yes, you're right. When I tried using worker_spi to test wait event,
> > I found the behavior. And thanks a lot for your patch. I wasn't aware
> > of the way. I'll merge your patch to the tests for wait events.
>
> Be careful when using that. I have not spent more than a few minutes
> to show my point, but what I sent lacks a shmem_request_hook in
> _PG_init(), for example, to request an amount of shared memory equal
> to the size of the state structure.

I think the preferred way to grab a chunk of shared memory for an
external module is by using shmem_request_hook and shmem_startup_hook.
Wait events shared memory too can use them.

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