On 12 August 2013 18:37, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
On 8/8/13 3:44 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > Other than that, no. I was thinking of creating a general tool as a > custom background worker, which would take stored procedure calls and > pass them through to PostgreSQL, returning results as JSON. Mainly > because I need it for a project. However, this wouldn't accept any query.
You can write such a thing in 20 lines of code as an external service. What's the value in having it has a background worker? (Note also the term *background* worker.) It just seems harder to manage and scale that way.
When I think about that, it seems to me like the only value of that would be a nice sql command for starting a service. On the other hand I could implement that in python/perl/C and start external server from the same sql query. When I started this thread I was thinking about writing some super simple app, in something like python/perl, and run it externally. I really don't like idea of having that in core, as it will be another thing to support, test etc. and another source of security/efficiency bugs. What we really need is something like phpPgAdmin with JSON/XML/Something api.
And one more thing: I would never let my db users to start such a service on their own.
