Re: [PROPOSAL] Termination of Background Workers for ALTER/DROP DATABASE
| От | Chao Li | 
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| Тема | Re: [PROPOSAL] Termination of Background Workers for ALTER/DROP DATABASE | 
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| Msg-id | E8C35CCE-E92F-467B-A604-5C1BBBA8F1C8@gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст  | 
		
| Ответ на | RE: [PROPOSAL] Termination of Background Workers for ALTER/DROP DATABASE ("Aya Iwata (Fujitsu)" <iwata.aya@fujitsu.com>) | 
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            		RE: [PROPOSAL] Termination of Background Workers for ALTER/DROP DATABASE
            		
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Hi Iwata-san,
On Oct 9, 2025, at 21:09, Aya Iwata (Fujitsu) <iwata.aya@fujitsu.com> wrote:Hi,
I updated the patch to v0005.
Regards,
Aya Iwata
Fujitsu Limited
<v0005-0001-Allow-background-workers-to-be-terminated.patch>
1 - bgworker.sgml
```
+    <varlistentry>
+     <term><literal>BGWORKER_EXIT_AT_DATABASE_CHANGE</literal></term>
+     <listitem>
+      <para>
+       <indexterm><primary>BGWORKER_EXIT_AT_DATABASE_CHANGE</primary></indexterm>
+       Requests termination of the background worker when the database it is
+       connected to undergoes significant changes. The postmaster will send a
+       termination signal to the background worker when any of the following
+       commands are executed: <command>DROP DATABASE</command>,
+       <command>ALTER DATABASE RENAME TO</command>, or
+       <command>ALTER DATABASE SET TABLESPACE</command>.
+       When <command>CREATE DATABASE TEMPLATE</command> command is executed,
+       background workers which connected to target template database are terminated.
+       If <literal>BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS</literal> and
+       <literal>BGWORKER_BACKEND_DATABASE_CONNECTION</literal> are not using,
+       nothing happens.
+      </para>
+     </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
```
This paragraph has several English problems:
* “Undergoes significant changes” sounds vague, better to say “is dropped, renamed or moved to a different tablespace”.
* “When CREATE DATABASE TEMPLATE command is executed” - missing articles.
* “background workers which connected to target template database” - wrong tense/relative pronoun.
* “are not using” should be “are not used” or “are not set”
Suggested revision:
```
<indexterm><primary>BGWORKER_EXIT_AT_DATABASE_CHANGE</primary></indexterm>
Requests termination of the background worker when the database it is
connected to is dropped, renamed, or moved to a different tablespace.
In these cases, the postmaster will send a termination signal to the
background worker when any of the following commands are executed:
<command>DROP DATABASE</command>, <command>ALTER DATABASE RENAME TO</command>,
or <command>ALTER DATABASE SET TABLESPACE</command>.
When a <command>CREATE DATABASE ... TEMPLATE ...</command> command is executed,
background workers connected to the template database used as the source are
also terminated.
If neither <literal>BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS</literal> nor
<literal>BGWORKER_BACKEND_DATABASE_CONNECTION</literal> is set, this action
has no effect.
```
2 - bgworker.h
```
+#define BGWORKER_EXIT_AT_DATABASE_CHANGE                         0x0004
```
You are using white-spaces between the macro name and value, that’s why 0x0004 looks not aligned in my IDE. I think you should use a couple tabs between them.
3 - bgworker.h
```
+extern void TerminateBackgroundWorkersByOid(Oid databaseId);
```
An OID can represent a lot of things. So, instead of suggesting the OID type by parameter name, I wonder if it is better do that with the function name, like TerminateBgWorkersByDbOid(Oid oid)
4 - procarray.c
```
+ /*
+  * Terminate all background workers for this database, if
+  * they had requested it (BGWORKER_EXIT_AT_DATABASE_DROP)
+  */
+ TerminateBackgroundWorkersByOid(databaseId);
```
I wonder if the correct parameter should be BGWORKER_EXIT_AT_DATABASE_CHANGE in the comment, as you are adding BGWORKER_EXIT_AT_DATABASE_CHANGE with this patch.
5 - bgworker.c
```
+/*
+ * Cancel background workers.
+ */
+void
+TerminateBackgroundWorkersByOid(Oid databaseId)
```
I think the function name is more descriptive than the function comment. So, please either remove function comment or enhance it.
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/
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