Re: Processing a work queue

From: "Alexander Staubo" <alex(at)purefiction(dot)net>
To: "Steve Crawford" <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Processing a work queue
Date: 2007-04-26 23:18:38
Message-ID: 88daf38c0704261618s91256c3tb01254871578a143@mail.gmail.com
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On 4/27/07, Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas on how to handle a work queue? I've been thinking
> about optimizing this process for quite a while.

I have been using PostgreSQL for the exact same thing, except I have
not yet reached the stage where I need to process queue items in
parallel. :) Anyway, this question has been covered several times, and
I believe this post by Tom Lane delineates the canonical recipe:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2003-05/msg00351.php

Alexander.

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