Process priority.

Hi,
I wrote a C program that can be called through postgres via stored
procedures. It allows you to change the current postmaster process priority.
Essentially it's intended purpose would be to allow a highly
resource intensive postmaster process to run at a lower priority, allowing
other postmaster processes more cpu time. For example admin/reporting
backend sql's that impact the system. I guess this is the same as renice,
however it can be accessed programatically from the postgres box via any
client.

The three stored procs are as follows:

get_pid()
get_priority()
set_priority(int) <!--- setting a negative number(high priority)
requires root access, typical usage would be to set a lower priority, i.e.
of 20.

I would not use this as a alternative to setting up a replication
slave for reporting on a large production system.

I have attached the source code, it has already been compiled for
redhat Linux ES3. There is a README file to get you started. This was my
first attempt at writing a c function for postgres.

<<priority.rar>>

Theo Galanakis
Database Administrator
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