Hi, On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 15:11 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > You can't just retarget a backend to operate in another database, at > least not without major changes in that infrastructure.
Why not? What would be needed to retarget a backend to operate in another database? Such a retargetting would be helpful in several cases: - pre-forking of backends (well, depends on efficiency of retargetting..) - slave backends for parallel query execution - slave backends for replaying replicated transactions I'm using backends operating without a client connection, with superuser privileges only. But those are still connected to one specific database. It would really be helpfull if I could retarget them as needed. Regards Markus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match