auxprocess.h File Reference

#include "miscadmin.h"

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Functions
void	AuxiliaryProcessMain (AuxProcType auxtype) pg_attribute_noreturn()

Function Documentation

AuxiliaryProcessMain()

void AuxiliaryProcessMain

(

AuxProcType

auxtype

)

Definition at line 57 of file auxprocess.c.

{
    Assert(IsUnderPostmaster);
 
    MyAuxProcType = auxtype;
 
    switch (MyAuxProcType)
    {
        case StartupProcess:
            MyBackendType = B_STARTUP;
            break;
        case ArchiverProcess:
            MyBackendType = B_ARCHIVER;
            break;
        case BgWriterProcess:
            MyBackendType = B_BG_WRITER;
            break;
        case CheckpointerProcess:
            MyBackendType = B_CHECKPOINTER;
            break;
        case WalWriterProcess:
            MyBackendType = B_WAL_WRITER;
            break;
        case WalReceiverProcess:
            MyBackendType = B_WAL_RECEIVER;
            break;
        default:
            elog(PANIC, "unrecognized process type: %d", (int) MyAuxProcType);
            MyBackendType = B_INVALID;
    }
 
    init_ps_display(NULL);
 
    SetProcessingMode(BootstrapProcessing);
    IgnoreSystemIndexes = true;
 
    /*
     * As an auxiliary process, we aren't going to do the full InitPostgres
     * pushups, but there are a couple of things that need to get lit up even
     * in an auxiliary process.
     */
 
    /*
     * Create a PGPROC so we can use LWLocks.  In the EXEC_BACKEND case, this
     * was already done by SubPostmasterMain().
     */
#ifndef EXEC_BACKEND
    InitAuxiliaryProcess();
#endif
 
    BaseInit();
 
    /*
     * Assign the ProcSignalSlot for an auxiliary process.  Since it doesn't
     * have a BackendId, the slot is statically allocated based on the
     * auxiliary process type (MyAuxProcType).  Backends use slots indexed in
     * the range from 1 to MaxBackends (inclusive), so we use MaxBackends +
     * AuxProcType + 1 as the index of the slot for an auxiliary process.
     *
     * This will need rethinking if we ever want more than one of a particular
     * auxiliary process type.
     */
    ProcSignalInit(MaxBackends + MyAuxProcType + 1);
 
    /*
     * Auxiliary processes don't run transactions, but they may need a
     * resource owner anyway to manage buffer pins acquired outside
     * transactions (and, perhaps, other things in future).
     */
    CreateAuxProcessResourceOwner();
 
 
    /* Initialize backend status information */
    pgstat_beinit();
    pgstat_bestart();
 
    /* register a before-shutdown callback for LWLock cleanup */
    before_shmem_exit(ShutdownAuxiliaryProcess, 0);
 
    SetProcessingMode(NormalProcessing);
 
    switch (MyAuxProcType)
    {
        case StartupProcess:
            StartupProcessMain();
            proc_exit(1);
 
        case ArchiverProcess:
            PgArchiverMain();
            proc_exit(1);
 
        case BgWriterProcess:
            BackgroundWriterMain();
            proc_exit(1);
 
        case CheckpointerProcess:
            CheckpointerMain();
            proc_exit(1);
 
        case WalWriterProcess:
            WalWriterMain();
            proc_exit(1);
 
        case WalReceiverProcess:
            WalReceiverMain();
            proc_exit(1);
 
        default:
            elog(PANIC, "unrecognized process type: %d", (int) MyAuxProcType);
            proc_exit(1);
    }
}

References ArchiverProcess, Assert(), B_ARCHIVER, B_BG_WRITER, B_CHECKPOINTER, B_INVALID, B_STARTUP, B_WAL_RECEIVER, B_WAL_WRITER, BackgroundWriterMain(), BaseInit(), before_shmem_exit(), BgWriterProcess, BootstrapProcessing, CheckpointerMain(), CheckpointerProcess, CreateAuxProcessResourceOwner(), elog(), IgnoreSystemIndexes, init_ps_display(), InitAuxiliaryProcess(), IsUnderPostmaster, MaxBackends, MyAuxProcType, MyBackendType, NormalProcessing, PANIC, PgArchiverMain(), pgstat_beinit(), pgstat_bestart(), proc_exit(), ProcSignalInit(), SetProcessingMode, ShutdownAuxiliaryProcess(), StartupProcess, StartupProcessMain(), WalReceiverMain(), WalReceiverProcess, WalWriterMain(), and WalWriterProcess.

Referenced by StartChildProcess().