Re: BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection(NULL, ...) doesn't work

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:

> Hmm, the intention is that this code path mimics what the autovacuum
> launcher does to establish its connection.  It did work at some point;
> maybe I broke this before commit.  I will give it a look next week.

I'm pretty sure InitPostgres skips a bunch of stuff if
IsAutoVacuumLauncherProcess().  If you just want to make an environment
equivalent to that process's, maybe those tests should be replaced with
"if (dbname == NULL)".  But the claim that you have access to shared
catalogs in this state is still wrong.