Re: [ADMIN] Priorities for users or queries? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: [ADMIN] Priorities for users or queries?
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Msg-id 20070211084716.GB6652@KanotixBox
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In response to Re: [ADMIN] Priorities for users or queries?  ("Edwin Eyan Moragas" <haaktu@gmail.com>)
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Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@gmail.com> schrieb:

> On 2/11/07, Benjamin Arai <benjamin@araisoft.com> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Is there a way to give priorities to queries or users?  Something
> >similar to NICE in Linux.  My goal is to give the updating (backend)
> >application a very low priority and give the web application a high
> >priority to avoid disturbing the user experience.
> >Thanks in advance!
>
> with all due respect to Josh who has replied to this question already.

Just an idea:

You can retrieve the PID and the username of running querys in
pg_stat_activity. Perhaps, with this knowledge and an untrusted language
you can run system-commands such renice to change the priority of
running postmaster-processes.



Andreas
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