Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, "wangsh(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <wangsh(dot)fnst(at)fujitsu(dot)com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init
Date: 2022-04-10 23:34:09
Message-ID: YlNpcXUN9kJ+x0vn@paquier.xyz
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On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 09:24:42PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> Yeah I would prefer this approach too, although it couldn't prevent extension
> from directly modifying the underlying variables so I don't know how effective
> it would be.
>
> On the bright side, I see that citus is using SetConfigOption() to increase
> max_prepared_transactions [1]. That's the only extension mentioned in that
> thread that does modify some GUC, and this GUC was already marked as
> PGDLLIMPORT since 2017 so it probably wasn't done that way for Windows
> compatibility reason.
>
> In the meantime, should we add an open item?

Yes, I think that we need to discuss more the matter here, so added one.
--
Michael

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