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

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>
To: "'Alvaro Herrera'" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "'Simon Riggs'" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "'\"'Boszormenyi Zoltan'\"'" <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "'Jaime Casanova'" <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "'\"'Kohei KaiGai'\"'" <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, "'Andrew Dunstan'" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "'Robert Haas'" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "'David E(dot) Wheeler'" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, "'Pg Hackers'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, 'Hans-Jürgen Schönig' <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: [v9.3] Extra Daemons (Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database)
Date: 2012-09-24 04:24:22
Message-ID: 00ae01cd9a0c$7a34d420$6e9e7c60$@kapila@huawei.com
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> On Monday, September 24, 2012 12:24 AM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Amit kapila's message of sáb sep 22 01:14:40 -0300 2012:
> > On Friday, September 21, 2012 6:50 PM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Excerpts from Amit Kapila's message of vie sep 21 02:26:49 -0300
> 2012:
> > > On Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:13 PM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >
>
> You could also have worker groups commanded by one process: one queen
> bee, one or more worker bees. The queen determines what to do, sets
> tasklist info in shmem, signals worker bees. While the tasklist is
> empty, workers would sleep.
>
> As you can see there are many things that can be done with this.

Yes, this really is a good feature which can be used for many different functionalaties.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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