Re: Ideas for new features

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:18, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:10, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
>>> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>>>>> *Higher time resolution for pgAdmin jobs. A job should be runable e.g.
>>>>> every 1 second or 10 seconds.
>>>>
>>>> +1 (ticket added, #228).
>>>
>>> And closed it again. This is extremely unlikely to happen - it would
>>> require significant code changes, would significantly increase load on
>>> the server, and is of extremely limited use.
>>
>> I'll buy the significant code-changes, but I dont' see how it would
>> necessarily increase the load on the server. Maybe because I don't
>> know pgagent enough - can you explain how?
>
> Jobs are stored in the database with a 'next run' time that is
> recalculated from the schedules each time the job runs or is modified.
> The agent polls the database for jobs that are at, or past their next
> run time every minute by default. To reduce the resolution to 10
> seconds or even 1 second, we'd need to start polling the database at
> least every 10 or 1 second(s).

Oh. I thought that was cached in the agent.

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