On 2022-11-23 We 16:59, Tom Lane wrote: > Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 10:00 AM Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 9:15 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Are you saying you still think it's worth pursuing longpoll or similar >>> methods for it, or that this is good enough? >> I personally think it'd be pretty neat, to squeeze out that last bit >> of latency. Maybe it's overkill... > I can't get excited about pursuing the last ~30 seconds of delay > for launching tasks that are going to run 10 or 20 or more minutes > (where the future trend of those numbers is surely up not down). > > The thing that was really significantly relevant here IMO was to > reduce the load on the central server, and I think we've done that. > Would adding longpoll reduce that further? In principle maybe, > but I'm not sure we have enough animals to make it worthwhile. > >
Yeah, that's my feeling. We have managed to get a large improvement with a fairly small effort, I'm much less excited about getting another small improvement from a large effort. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com