Re: RES: Priority to a mission critical transaction

Someone should ask them to remove the article.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Carlos H. Reimer" <carlos(dot)reimer(at)opendb(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> > There is an article about "Lowering the priority of a PostgreSQL query"
> > (http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=11) that explains how to use the
> > setpriority() to lower PostgreSQL processes.
>
> > I?m wondering how much effective it would be for i/o bound systems.
>
> That article isn't worth the electrons it's written on. Aside from the
> I/O point, there's a little problem called "priority inversion". See
> the archives for (many) past discussions of nice'ing backends.
>
> regards, tom lane
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