Re: [v9.3] Extra Daemons (Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database)

Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>

From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>
To: "'Alvaro Herrera'" <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: "'Simon Riggs'" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, "'\"'Boszormenyi Zoltan'\"'" <zb@cybertec.at>, "'Jaime Casanova'" <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>, "'\"'Kohei KaiGai'\"'" <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, "'Andrew Dunstan'" <andrew@dunslane.net>, "'Robert Haas'" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "'David E. Wheeler'" <david@justatheory.com>, "'Pg Hackers'" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, 'Hans-Jürgen Schönig' <hs@cybertec.at>
Date: 2012-09-24T04:24:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On Monday, September 24, 2012 12:24 AM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Amit kapila's message of sáb sep 22 01:14:40 -0300 2012:
> > On Friday, September 21, 2012 6:50 PM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Excerpts from Amit Kapila's message of vie sep 21 02:26:49 -0300
> 2012:
> > > On Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:13 PM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >
> 
> You could also have worker groups commanded by one process: one queen
> bee, one or more worker bees.  The queen determines what to do, sets
> tasklist info in shmem, signals worker bees.  While the tasklist is
> empty, workers would sleep.
> 
> As you can see there are many things that can be done with this.

  Yes, this really is a good feature which can be used for many different functionalaties.


With Regards,
Amit Kapila.