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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [v9.3] Extra Daemons (Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database)
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Msg-id 1347421669-sup-3805@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [v9.3] Extra Daemons (Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database)  (Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>)
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Excerpts from Amit Kapila's message of mié sep 12 00:30:40 -0300 2012:
> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:09 PM Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Boszormenyi Zoltan's message of vie jun 29 09:11:23 -0400 2012:
>
> >> We have some use cases for this patch, when can you post
> >> a new version? I would test and review it.
>
> > What use cases do you have in mind?
>
>   Wouldn't it be helpful for some features like parallel query in future?

Maybe, maybe not -- but I don't think it's a wise idea to include too
much complexity just to support such a thing.  I would vote to leave
that out for now and just concentrate on getting external stuff working.
There are enough use cases that it's already looking nontrivial.

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