Dave Page wrote:



-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2005 18:28
To: Dave Page
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] RFC: pgAgent Scheduler Design


Dave Page wrote:


obs (shell jobs) need a system qualifier.



Well that would tie in with the multi-thread model, and the

current code




Which isn't done in the same transaction as the original select, thus
allowing a window in which another agent might grab the same job and
execute it (though from my reading of the code, the second instance
won't bother to log it's start time, and will probably mess up the
logging of step results because prtid will be an empty string). Unless
I'm missing something of course...

You do.

int rc=serviceConn->ExecuteVoid(
        "UPDATE ... SET jobagentpid=pg_backend_pid() ...
         WHERE jobagentid IS NULL ...");

if (rc == 1) // i.e. if exactly one row was affected, it's our job now.

Regards,
Andreas

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