Re: WIP: getting rid of the pg_database flat file

Tom Lane wrote:

> To actually get rid of the pg_database flat file, we'd need to take the
> further step of teaching the AV launcher to read pg_database for itself,
> or else refactor things so that the AV workers can do that for it.
> (Alvaro, any comments about the best way to proceed there?)

Hmm.  I don't see any easy way out of that at the moment ... the
launcher would have to become a pseudo-backend, at least to the point
where it is able to read pg_database.  I don't see how could workers
help the launcher with that, unless we made them write a flatfile
representation of pg_database, which would put us back where we started ...

I'll have a deeper look around.

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