Re: Auxiliary Processes and MyAuxProc

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 1:41 PM Mike Palmiotto
<mike(dot)palmiotto(at)crunchydata(dot)com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >
> > If memory serves, StartChildProcess already was an attempt to unify
> > the treatment of postmaster children. It's possible that another
> > round of unification would be productive, but I think you'll find
> > that there are random small differences in requirements that'd
> > make it messy.
>
> It kind of seemed like it, but I noticed the small differences in
> requirements, which made me a bit hesitant. I'll go ahead and see what
> I can do and submit the patch for consideration.

I'm considering changing StartChildProcess to take a struct with data
for forking/execing each different process. Each different backend
type would build up the struct and then pass it on to
StartChildProcess, which would handle each separately. This would
ensure that the fork type is set prior to InitPostmasterChild and
would provide us with the information necessary to do what we need in
the InitPostmasterChild_hook.

Attached is a patch to fork_process.h which shows roughly what I'm
thinking. Does this seem somewhat sane as a first step?

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Mike Palmiotto
Software Engineer
Crunchy Data Solutions
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