Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie dic 17 12:27:30 -0300 2010:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > I think the attached might be a little tidier. Thoughts?
>
> I'm not really thrilled at the idea of calling
> IsPostmasterChildWalSender for every child whether or not it will have
> any impact on the decision. That involves touching shared memory which
> can be rather expensive (see previous discussions about shared cache
> lines and so forth).
Is it possible to save the "is walsender" flag in the Backend struct?
That would make it possible to solve the problem very easily.
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