On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hmm so you can't have workers just "doing something once" and exit? I have >> to admit, i didn't follow bgworkers closely in the past, but could you give >> a short insight on why this is currently not possible? > > Bgworkers are expected to run all the time, and will be restarted each time > they exit cleanly with a status code 0. Note that they are *still* restarted > immediately even if bgw_restart_time is set at BGW_NEVER_RESTART or to a > certain value. > There are actually two ways you can use to have them perform a one-time > task: > - put it in indefinite sleep after the task is accomplished
That's not really the same thing... > - set bgw_restart_time to BGW_NEVER_RESTART. and have the bgworler exit with > non-0 status code. That might be good enough, though. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
