Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "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: 2022-04-11 16:44:08
Message-ID: 20220411164408.GA1915258@nathanxps13
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On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:47:17AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 9:24 AM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > FWIW I would be on board with reverting all the GetMaxBackends() stuff if
>> > we made the value available in _PG_init() and stopped supporting GUC
>> > overrides by extensions (e.g., ERROR-ing in SetConfigOption() when
>> > process_shared_preload_libraries_in_progress is true).
>>
>> 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.
>
> I think I also prefer this approach. I am willing to be convinced
> that's the wrong idea, but right now I favor it.

Here are some patches. 0001 reverts all the recent commits in this area,
0002 is the patch I posted in August, and 0003 is an attempt at blocking
GUC changes in preloaded libraries' _PG_init() functions.

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Nathan Bossart
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Attachment Content-Type Size
v1-0001-Revert-GetMaxBackends.patch text/x-diff 47.5 KB
v1-0002-Calculate-MaxBackends-earlier-in-PostmasterMain.patch text/x-diff 3.0 KB
v1-0003-Block-attempts-to-set-GUCs-while-loading-shared_p.patch text/x-diff 3.1 KB

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