Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com> wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> 100% agree  (having re-read the thread and Alvaro's idea having sunk
>> in).  Being able to set up daemon processes side by side with the
>> postmaster would fit the bill nicely.  It's pretty interesting to
>> think of all the places you could go with it.
>
> pgAgent could use it *right now*. I keep forgetting to restart it after restarting PostgreSQL and finding after a day or so that no jobs have run.

That can and should be fixed by teaching pgAgent that failing to
connect to the server, or getting disconnected, is not a fatal error,
but a reason to sleep and retry.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company