Re: pg_background contrib module proposal

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andrey Borodin <amborodin(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Amul Sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pg_background contrib module proposal
Date: 2017-01-27 14:14:59
Message-ID: 6c74754e-c98c-845c-2535-9b83d7ba0686@2ndquadrant.com
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On 1/19/17 12:47 PM, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> 4. There is some controversy on where implemented feature shall be: in separate extension (as in this patch), in db_link, in some PL API, in FDW or somewhere else. I think that new extension is an appropriate place for the feature. But I’m not certain.

I suppose we should decide first whether we want pg_background as a
separate extension or rather pursue extending dblink as proposed elsewhere.

I don't know if pg_background allows any use case that dblink can't
handle (yet).

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