Re: [HACKERS] background sessions

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?

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