From: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Call for Google Summer of Code mentors, admins |
Date: | 2013-03-21 08:53:15 |
Message-ID: | CAA-aLv5H9t0xBo422dWtGR=DFwJM5nXqkS6xZX2CZEkNyDLMvg@mail.gmail.com |
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On 20 March 2013 16:03, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> On 19 March 2013 17:42, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 14 February 2013 18:02, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Once again, Google is holding Summer of Code. We need to assess whether
>>> we want to participate this year.
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> - Who wants to mentor for GSOC?
>>>
>>> - Who can admin for GSOC? Thom?
>>>
>>> - Please suggest project ideas for GSOC
>>>
>>> - Students seeing this -- please speak up if you have projects you plan
>>> to submit.
>>
>> If anyone else has more projects ideas to suggest, please do share.
>> Students, please feel free to review the PostgreSQL Todo list for
>> inspiration: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo Of course ensure
>> you don't choose anything too ambitious or trivial.
>
> Okay, here's a random idea (which could be infeasible and/or
> undesirable). How about a way to internally schedule tasks using a
> background worker process (introduced in 9.2) to wake on each tick and
> run tasks?
>
> So:
>
> CREATE EXTENSION pg_scheduler;
> --
> schedule_task(task_command, task_priority, task_start, repeat_interval);
>
> SELECT schedule_task('REINDEX my_table', 1, '2012-03-20
> 00:10:00'::timestamp, '1 week'::interval);
>
> SELECT list_tasks();
>
> -[ RECORD 1 ]---+-----------------------
> task_id | 1
> task_command | REINDEX my_table
> task_priority | 1
> task_start | 2012-03-20 00:10:00-04
> repeat_interval | 7 days
> owner | postgres
>
> SELECT delete_task(1);
>
> Tasks would be run in sequence if they share the same scheduled time
> ordered by priority descending, beyond which it would be
> non-deterministic. Or perhaps additional worker processes to fire
> commands in parallel if necessary.
>
> Disclaimer: I haven't really thought this through.
Here's some evidence for my last statement: custom background worker
processes are actually being introduced as part of 9.3, not available
in 9.2. I don't think that changes things much though.
--
Thom
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