Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> I don't want to have a server-side ticker at all, especially not one
> that exists only for a client that might or might not be there.  We've
> been doing what we can to reduce PG's idle-power consumption, which is
> an important consideration for large-data-center applications.  Adding a
> new source of periodic wakeups is exactly the wrong direction to be
> going.

I would guess that's an opt-in solution, as some other of our subprocess
are, much like autovacuum.

> There is no need for a ticker to drive a job system.  It should be able
> to respond to interrupts (if a NOTIFY comes in) and otherwise sleep
> until the precalculated time that it next needs to launch a job.

I think the ticker was proposed as a minimal component allowing to be
developing the job system as an extension.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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