Re: [v9.3] Extra Daemons (Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database)

2012/9/11 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>:
> Excerpts from Boszormenyi Zoltan's message of vie jun 29 09:11:23 -0400 2012:
>
>> We have some use cases for this patch, when can you post
>> a new version? I would test and review it.
>
> What use cases do you have in mind?
>
I'm motivated with this feature to implement background calculation server
to handle accesses to GPU device; to avoid limitation of number of processes
that can use GPU device simultaneously.

Probably, other folks have their use cases.
For example, Zoltan introduced his use case in the upthread as follows:
> - an SQL-driven scheduler, similar to pgAgent, it's generic enough,
>   we might port it to this scheme and publish it
> - a huge volume importer daemon, it was written for a very specific
>   purpose and for a single client, we cannot publish it.

Thanks,
-- 
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>