Re: Passing values to a dynamic background worker

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> On 4/17/17 16:19, Keith Fiske wrote:
> > I've reached a roadblock in that bgw_main_arg can only accept a single
> > argument that must be passed by value for a dynamic bgw. I already
> > worked around this for passing the database name to the my existing use
> > of a bgw with doing partition maintenance (pass a simple integer to use
> > as an index array value). But I'm not sure how to do this for passing
> > multiple values in.
>
> You can also store this kind of information in a table.
>
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> Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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>

True, but that seemed like the easy way out. :) Trying to find ways to
learn internals better through projects I'm actively working on.

Keith