Re: spi in bgworker

From: James Harper <james(dot)harper(at)bendigoit(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: spi in bgworker
Date: 2014-03-22 23:54:45
Message-ID: F214C06498BC244DB3F9472E1C5368180F41E488@BITCOM1.int.sbss.com.au
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>
> James Harper wrote:
> > The docs say I'm supposed to call BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection in
> a bgworker and then I can start using spi functions, but they aren't clear on if
> I should call SPI_connect too.
> >
> > If I call BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection and then SPI_execute I get a
> return code of SPI_ERROR_UNCONNECTED. If I call
> BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection then SPI_connect I get a segfault.
>
> You need to start a transaction after initializing the database
> connection. Did you see the sample worker_spi code in contrib?
>

I have now. Thanks!

Is the documentation here a bit light because background workers are a new feature? Or is this general postgres knowledge I just haven't picked up on yet?

Could SPI_connect return an error rather than crashing?

Thanks again

James

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