Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database
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Msg-id CA+TgmobqrFp199fdQZ3SwDq9KmP3bCQ10iMS4bdygQVWibim_g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>)
Responses Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com> wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> 100% agree  (having re-read the thread and Alvaro's idea having sunk
>> in).  Being able to set up daemon processes side by side with the
>> postmaster would fit the bill nicely.  It's pretty interesting to
>> think of all the places you could go with it.
>
> pgAgent could use it *right now*. I keep forgetting to restart it after restarting PostgreSQL and finding after a day
orso that no jobs have run. 

That can and should be fixed by teaching pgAgent that failing to
connect to the server, or getting disconnected, is not a fatal error,
but a reason to sleep and retry.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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