On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> I think calling it in the postmaster is a nonstarter.
Thanks for the feedback. Please find attached version two, which moves the
code to the very start of BackendInitialize in
tcop/backend_startup.c. If we handle the request, we simply proc_exit
Greg Sabino Mullane writes:
> Good question. Forking is expensive, and there is also a lot of
> housekeeping associated with it that is simply not needed here. We want
> this to be lightweight, and simple. No need to fork if we are just going to
> do a few strncmp() calls and a send().
send() can
On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM Antonin Houska wrote:
> Why is it important not to fork?
Good question. Forking is expensive, and there is also a lot of
housekeeping associated with it that is simply not needed here. We want
this to be lightweight, and simple. No need to fork if we are just go
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Proposal: Allow a carefully curated selection of information to be shown
> without authentication.
>
> A common task for an HA system or a load balancer is to quickly determine
> which of your Postgres clusters is the primary, and which are the
> replicas. The cano
