On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 9:40 AM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:28:42PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > > Isn't that just going to end up with extension code erroring out and/or > > blocking waiting for a bgworker to start? > > Well, that's the point to block things during an upgrade. Do you have > a list of requirements you'd like to see satisfied here? POWA would > be fine with blocking the execution of bgworkers AFAIK (Julien feel > free to correct me here if necessary).
Yes, no problem at all, whether the bgworker isn't registered or never launched. The bgworker isn't even mandatory anymore since a few years, as we introduced an external daemon to collect metrics on a distant database.