Re: Simplify some logical replication worker type checking

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 12:11 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> On 2023-Aug-01, Peter Smith wrote:
>
> > PSA a small patch making those above-suggested changes. The 'make
> > check' and TAP subscription tests are all passing OK.
>
> I think the code ends up more readable with this style of changes, so
> +1.  I do wonder if these calls should appear in a proc_exit callback or
> some such instead, though.
>

But the call to
ApplyLauncherForgetWorkerStartTime()->logicalrep_launcher_attach_dshmem()
has some dynamic shared memory allocation/attach calls which I am not
sure is a good idea to do in proc_exit() callbacks. We may want to
evaluate whether moving the suggested checks to proc_exit or any other
callback is a better idea. What do you think?

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With Regards,
Amit Kapila.