Commit 149e38e5 authored by Robert Haas's avatar Robert Haas

Assorted bgworker-related comment fixes.

Per gripes by Amit Kapila.
parent 813fb031
......@@ -134,17 +134,15 @@ BackgroundWorkerShmemInit(void)
Assert(found);
}
/*
* Search the postmaster's backend-private list of RegisteredBgWorker objects
* for the one that maps to the given slot number.
*/
static RegisteredBgWorker *
FindRegisteredWorkerBySlotNumber(int slotno)
{
slist_iter siter;
/*
* Copy contents of worker list into shared memory. Record the
* shared memory slot assigned to each worker. This ensures
* a 1-to-1 correspondence betwen the postmaster's private list and
* the array in shared memory.
*/
slist_foreach(siter, &BackgroundWorkerList)
{
RegisteredBgWorker *rw;
......@@ -158,7 +156,7 @@ FindRegisteredWorkerBySlotNumber(int slotno)
}
/*
* Notice changes to shared_memory made by other backends. This code
* Notice changes to shared memory made by other backends. This code
* runs in the postmaster, so we must be very careful not to assume that
* shared memory contents are sane. Otherwise, a rogue backend could take
* out the postmaster.
......
......@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
* including normal transactions.
*
* Any external module loaded via shared_preload_libraries can register a
* worker. Then, at the appropriate time, the worker process is forked from
* the postmaster and runs the user-supplied "main" function. This code may
* connect to a database and run transactions. Once started, it stays active
* until shutdown or crash. The process should sleep during periods of
* inactivity.
* worker. Workers can also be registered dynamically at runtime. In either
* case, the worker process is forked from the postmaster and runs the
* user-supplied "main" function. This code may connect to a database and
* run transactions. Once started, it stays active until shutdown or crash;
* unless the restart interval is declared as BGW_NEVER_RESTART and the
* process exits with a return code of 1; workers that do this are
* automatically unregistered by the postmaster.
*
* If the fork() call fails in the postmaster, it will try again later. Note
* that the failure can only be transient (fork failure due to high load,
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