| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | amborodin(at)acm(dot)org, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: background sessions |
| Date: | 2017-03-01 02:35:01 |
| Message-ID: | 9dbc706d-a5b4-83b8-9545-056ac3ec3815@2ndquadrant.com |
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> For additional entertainment, I include patches that integrate
> background sessions into dblink. So dblink can open a connection to a
> background session, and then you can use the existing dblink functions
> to send queries, read results, etc. People use dblink to make
> self-connections to get autonomous subsessions, so this would directly
> address that use case. The 0001 patch is some prerequisite refactoring
> to remove an ugly macro mess, which is useful independent of this. 0002
> is the actual patch.
Updated patch, mainly with improved error handling and some tidying up.
Related to this is also the patch in
<https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d100f62a-0606-accc-693b-cdc6d16b9296@2ndquadrant.com>
as a resource control mechanism.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| v3-0001-Add-background-sessions.patch | text/x-patch | 82.5 KB |
| v2-0001-dblink-Replace-some-macros-by-static-functions.patch | text/x-patch | 15.1 KB |
| v2-0002-dblink-Add-background-sessions-support.patch | text/x-patch | 34.0 KB |
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