Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Move processing of startup-packet switches and GUC settings into

Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
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> Move processing of startup-packet switches and GUC settings into InitPostgres,
> to fix the problem that SetClientEncoding needs to be done before
> InitializeClientEncoding, as reported by Zdenek Kotala. We get at least
> the small consolation of being able to remove the bizarre API detail that
> had InitPostgres returning whether user is a superuser.

So, I think InitPostgres API could be deuglified a bit more by having
the launcher pass the database name instead of the OID. There's the
small race condition that the launcher could pass a database name and
have it be renamed before the worker starts, but I think it's small
enough to not matter much (note that it's already true that the launcher
could pass a database OID and have it be dropped before the worker
starts). Is anyone opposed to doing that change?

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