| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Don Drake <dondrake(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, Guido Barosio <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: sleep? |
| Date: | 2005-08-23 15:07:40 |
| Message-ID: | 430B3BBC.7010607@commandprompt.com |
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Don Drake wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in replying.
>
> The use-case that I have is the following. I'm writing a job-control
> tracking sub-system that will store when jobs are started, finished,
> failed, etc. I would like to have the ability to have a process that
> is requesting to start, to actually wait a specified period time
> before starting. It could wait for another job to finish. I'm
> writing this in plpgsql since I'm storing status in the db.
I would write a userspace daemon that ran outside of PostgreSQL to call
your procedures as you need them to run.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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