Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database

Hello

2012/3/5 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
>
> Excerpts from Artur Litwinowicz's message of lun mar 05 16:18:56 -0300 2012:
>> Dear Developers,
>>    I am looking for elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a
>> database or cluster - for now I can not find that solution.
>
> Yeah, it'd be good to have something.  Many people say it's not
> necessary, and probably some hackers would oppose it; but mainly I think
> we just haven't agreed (or even discussed) what the design of such a
> scheduler would look like.  For example, do we want it to be able to
> just connect and run queries and stuff, or do we want something more
> elaborate able to start programs such as running pg_dump?  What if the
> program crashes -- should it cause the server to restart?  And so on.
> It's not a trivial problem.
>

I agree - it is not simple

* workflow support
* dependency support

a general ACID scheduler can be nice (in pg) but it is not really
simple. There was some proposal about using autovacuum demon like
scheduler.

Pavel

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