Re: How to kill a Background worker and Its metadata

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Akash Agrawal  wrote:
> I've created a background worker and I am using Postgresql-9.4. This
> bgworker handles the job queue dynamically and goes to sleep if there is no
> job to process within the next 1 hour.
>
> Now, I want to have a mechanism to wake the bgworker up in case if someone
> adds a new job while the bgworker is in sleep mode. So to do it, I have
> created a trigger which initially removes the existing background worker and
> then registers a new one. I am using the following two queries inside it:

Why don't you just register and use a signal in this case? You could
even do something with SIGHUP...
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Michael