On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM, David E. Wheeler <da...@justatheory.com> wrote: > On Mar 9, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: >> 100% agree (having re-read the thread and Alvaro's idea having sunk >> in). Being able to set up daemon processes side by side with the >> postmaster would fit the bill nicely. It's pretty interesting to >> think of all the places you could go with it. > > pgAgent could use it *right now*. I keep forgetting to restart it after > restarting PostgreSQL and finding after a day or so that no jobs have run.
That can and should be fixed by teaching pgAgent that failing to connect to the server, or getting disconnected, is not a fatal error, but a reason to sleep and retry. -- 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
