(but not the autovacuum workers),
the <glossterm linkend="glossary-background-writer">background writer</glossterm>,
the <glossterm linkend="glossary-checkpointer">checkpointer</glossterm>,
- the <glossterm linkend="glossary-data-checksums-worker">data checksums worker</glossterm>,
- the <glossterm linkend="glossary-data-checksums-worker-launcher">data checksums worker launcher</glossterm>,
the <glossterm linkend="glossary-logger">logger</glossterm>,
the <glossterm linkend="glossary-startup-process">startup process</glossterm>,
the <glossterm linkend="glossary-wal-archiver">WAL archiver</glossterm>,
which runs system- or user-supplied code.
Serves as infrastructure for several features in
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, such as
- <glossterm linkend="glossary-replication">logical replication</glossterm>
- and <glossterm linkend="glossary-parallel-query">parallel queries</glossterm>.
+ <glossterm linkend="glossary-replication">logical replication</glossterm>,
+ <glossterm linkend="glossary-parallel-query">parallel queries</glossterm> and
+ <glossterm linkend="glossary-data-checksums-process">data checksums processing</glossterm>.
In addition, <glossterm linkend="glossary-extension">Extensions</glossterm> can add
custom background worker processes.
</para>
<glosssee otherterm="glossary-data-directory" />
</glossentry>
- <glossentry id="glossary-data-checksums-worker">
- <glossterm>Data Checksums Worker</glossterm>
+ <glossentry id="glossary-data-checksums-process">
+ <glossterm>Data Checksums (process)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
- A <glossterm linkend="glossary-background-worker">background worker</glossterm>
- which enables data checksums in a specific database.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="glossary-data-checksums-worker-launcher">
- <glossterm>Data Checksums Worker Launcher</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- A <glossterm linkend="glossary-background-worker">background worker</glossterm>
- which starts <glossterm linkend="glossary-data-checksums-worker"> data
- checksum worker</glossterm> processes for enabling data checksums in each
- database, or disables data checksums cluster-wide.
+ A set of
+ <glossterm linkend="glossary-background-worker">background worker</glossterm>
+ processes which can enable or disable data checksums in a running cluster.
+ The process which coordinates the work is known as the
+ <firstterm>data checksums launcher</firstterm> and the process which
+ operates on the individual databases is known as the
+ <firstterm>data checksums worker</firstterm>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>