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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-09-26T21:55:38Z
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Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of mié sep 26 13:04:34 -0300 2012:
> Excerpts from Kohei KaiGai's message of mié abr 25 06:40:23 -0300 2012:
> 
> > I tried to implement a patch according to the idea. It allows extensions
> > to register an entry point of the self-managed daemon processes,
> > then postmaster start and stop them according to the normal manner.
> 
> Here's my attempt at this.  This is loosely based on your code, as well
> as parts of what Simon sent me privately.

Actually please consider this version instead, in which the support to
connect to a database and run transactions actually works.  I have also
added a new sample module (worker_spi) which talks to the server using
the SPI interface.

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