On 2015-11-03 09:52:26 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2015-11-03 9:35 GMT+01:00 Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de>:
> 
> > On 2015-11-03 17:19:43 +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> > > With this commit - bde39eed0cafb82bc94c40e95d96b5cf47b6f719, it is not
> > possible
> > > to execute Notify commands inside a parallel worker. Can't we change
> > > it as disable both listen and notify commands inside a background worker?
> >
> > Well, parallel workers are something different from general background
> > workers. I don't see why it'd make sense to allow listen/notify there,
> > given the rest of the restrictions?
> >
> 
> I though about this possibility and I am thinking, so NOTIFY can be pretty
> useful there.
> 
> The background workers can be used for running AT TIME tasks - run import
> every 10 minutes. The notification can be useful for starting AFTER tasks
> where the required previous steps should be committed.
> 
> If we use workers more for execution custom code (PLpgSQL, PLPython, ...)
> then notification mechanism can be interesting (both directions).

Did you actually read what I wrote above? paralell workers != general
background workers.


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