Re: [HACKERS] background sessions

On 1/10/17 10:58 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> For additional entertainment, I include patches that integrate
>> background sessions into dblink.  So dblink can open a connection to a
>> background session, and then you can use the existing dblink functions
>> to send queries, read results, etc.  People use dblink to make
>> self-connections to get autonomous subsessions, so this would directly
>> address that use case.  The 0001 patch is some prerequisite refactoring
>> to remove an ugly macro mess, which is useful independent of this.  0002
>> is the actual patch.
> 
> Would that constitute a complete replacement for pg_background?

I think so.

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