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When a worker is flagged as BGW_NEVER_RESTART and we fail to start it, or if it is not marked BGW_NEVER_RESTART but is terminated before startup succeeds, what BgwHandleStatus should be reported? The previous code really hadn't considered this possibility (as indicated by the comments which ignore it completely) and would typically return BGWH_NOT_YET_STARTED, but that's not a good answer, because then there's no way for code using GetBackgroundWorkerPid() to tell the difference between a worker that has not started but will start later and a worker that has not started and will never be started. So, when this case happens, return BGWH_STOPPED instead. Update the comments to reflect this. The preceding fix by itself is insufficient to fix the problem, because the old code also didn't send a notification to the process identified in bgw_notify_pid when startup failed. That might've been technically correct under the theory that the status of the worker was BGWH_NOT_YET_STARTED, because the status would indeed not change when the worker failed to start, but now that we're more usefully reporting BGWH_STOPPED, a notification is needed. Without these fixes, code which starts background workers and then uses the recommended APIs to wait for those background workers to start would hang indefinitely if the postmaster failed to fork a worker. Amit Kapila and Robert Haas Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KDfKkvrjxsKJi3WPyceVi3dH1VCkbTJji2fuwKuB=3uw@mail.gmail.com
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