Re: make MaxBackends available in _PG_init

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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>, "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: 2022-04-18 23:33:54
Message-ID: 2395586.1650324834@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I noticed that requests for more LWLocks follow a similar pattern as
> regular shared memory requests, and I figured that we would want to do
> something similar for those, but I wasn't sure exactly how to proceed. I
> saw two options: 1) use shmem_request_hook for both regular requests and
> LWLock requests or 2) introduce an lwlock_request_hook. My instinct was
> that option 1 was preferable,

Yeah, I agree, which says that maybe the hook name needs to be something
else (not that I have a good proposal).

> but AFAICT this requires introducing a new
> external variable for inspecting whether the request is made at a valid
> time.

Uh, why? It'd be the core code's responsibility to place the hook
call at a point where you could do both.

regards, tom lane

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