Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@gmail.com> writes: > Ah, I missed the problem with postmaster. Could we have the first backend > that needs to access the table be responsible for creating it and > populating it with the built-in/requested-at-startup entries? Also, is > there any chance that postmaster might need to access the tranche names?
Seems quite hazardous to let the postmaster get involved with such a data structure. If it seems to need to, we'd better rethink where to put the functionality that needs the access. regards, tom lane