I'm not sure if I should ask this here or the general group but I'll start
here.
I need to limit the number of concurrent running jobs using pgAgent to a
value from a table.
Thoughts:
1. Setting on pgAgent itself to limit the number of concurrent jobs but I
don't see an option for this.
2. Have each job update a control table with its current status and using
pg_sleep to wait until there is an available process to run. This won't
work because each job runs as a single transaction so other sessions can't
see updates to a control table until it is too late.
3. Create a profile in PostgreSQL like Oracle has. Bizgres has a Resource
Queue which looks similar to an Oracle profile and I'm sure EnterpriseDB has
something like this too but I'm using PostgreSQL. I don't see anything in
PostgreSQL which would limit the number of connections or the number of
concurrent processes a user can run.
Is there any other way to limit the number of concurrent pgAgent jobs
running at a time?
Jon
