Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Allow background workers to be started dynamically.

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> I don't have a problem with getting rid of those, it's easy enough to
>> register them inside the worker and it's safe since we start with
>> blocked signals. I seem to remember some discussion about why they were
>> added but I can't find a reference anymore. Alvaro, do you remember?
>
> I left them there because it was easy; but they were absolutely
> necessary only until we decided that we would start the worker's main
> function with signals blocked.  I don't think there's any serious reason
> not to remove them now.

All right, done.  FWIW, I think starting the worker's main with
signals blocked was definitely the right decision.

I think we have consensus to back-patch the other API changes as well.I'll work up a patch for that.

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