On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Why do we need a ticker? Just fetch the time of the task closest in the > future, and sleep till that time or a notify arrives (meaning schedule > change).
Because that can't be done in userland (at least, not without stored procedures) since you'd have to keep an open running transaction while sleeping. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
