Re: Regarding BGworkers

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> maybe_start_bgworker()          in postmaster.c
>>   do_start_bgworker()           in postmaster.c
>>     StartBackgroundWorker()     in bgworker.c
> This formulation is fine, thanks. Instead of maybe_start_bgworker,
> what about start_bgworker_if_necessary?

I think Alvaro's suggestion is better.  It's shorter, and makes clear
that at most one will be started.

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