Jaime Casanova wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> There is currently no way to run a separate daemon process that runs >> user code as part of Postgres, so that the startup code gets run >> immediately we startup, re-run if we crash and shut down cleanly when >> the server does. If there were some way to run arbitrary code in a >> daemon using an extensibility API then we wouldn't ever get any requests >> for the scheduler, cos you could write it yourself without troubling >> anybody here. > > ah! that could get rid of one of my complaints, and then i could just > work the rest in pgAgent...
Yeah, seems like a good idea. Slon daemon and similar daemons could also use it. > so, is this idea (having some user processes be "tied" to postmaster > start/stop) going to somewhere? I've added this to the TODO list. Now we just need someone to write it. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
