Re: Ideas for new features

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:18, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:10, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
>>>> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)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.

I suspect that could be pretty hard to do without running into
problems, especially with multiple agents running.

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