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

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.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>
Date: 2012-11-16T10:47:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 15 November 2012 10:10, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> I am unsure about the amount of pre-cooked stuff we need to provide.
> For instance, do we want some easy way to let the user code run
> transactions?

That sounds like a basic requirement. There will be a few
non-transactional bgworkers but most will be just user code, probably
PL/pgSQL.

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