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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>
Cc: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David E(dot) Wheeler <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: [v9.3] Extra Daemons (Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database)
Date: 2012-09-12 03:50:41
Message-ID: 1347421669-sup-3805@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Amit Kapila's message of mié sep 12 00:30:40 -0300 2012:
> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:09 PM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Boszormenyi Zoltan's message of vie jun 29 09:11:23 -0400 2012:
>
> >> We have some use cases for this patch, when can you post
> >> a new version? I would test and review it.
>
> > What use cases do you have in mind?
>
> Wouldn't it be helpful for some features like parallel query in future?

Maybe, maybe not -- but I don't think it's a wise idea to include too
much complexity just to support such a thing. I would vote to leave
that out for now and just concentrate on getting external stuff working.
There are enough use cases that it's already looking nontrivial.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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