From: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:25:58 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Fix mishandling of background worker PGPROCs in EXEC_BACKEND builds.
X-Git-Tag: REL9_5_ALPHA1~1668
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Fix mishandling of background worker PGPROCs in EXEC_BACKEND builds.

InitProcess() relies on IsBackgroundWorker to decide whether the PGPROC
for a new backend should be taken from ProcGlobal's freeProcs or from
bgworkerFreeProcs.  In EXEC_BACKEND builds, InitProcess() is called
sooner than in non-EXEC_BACKEND builds, and IsBackgroundWorker wasn't
getting initialized soon enough.

Report by Noah Misch.  Diagnosis and fix by me.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 198c97ecf5d..b190cf51136 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -4668,6 +4668,9 @@ SubPostmasterMain(int argc, char *argv[])
 	{
 		int			shmem_slot;
 
+		/* do this as early as possible; in particular, before InitProcess() */
+		IsBackgroundWorker = true;
+
 		/* Close the postmaster's sockets */
 		ClosePostmasterPorts(false);