Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#2724 closed enhancement

PostGIS specific dynamic background workers — at Version 3

Reported by: robe Owned by: pramsey
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS 2.2.0
Component: postgis Version: master
Keywords: postgresql 9.4 Cc:

Description (last modified by robe)

Snooping on pgadvocacy http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFj8pRA8+J17PxmmL1B8b-4bfbHvpQPcp7g7rG7Skune=BuY8Q@mail.gmail.com got me thinking.

I admit to not having looked at the background API in PostgreSQL 9.4+. So this is more of a placeholder to investigate, see how useful it is, and if useful add to PostGIS 2.2 additional extensions only installed for those folks running PostgreSQL 9.4+.

Areas I see where background workers might be useful are in obviously long running processes where running in a single transaction is bloody slow and the work needs to be broken up into separate runs.

1) raster processing 2) topology processing 3) tiger geocoder processing

I suspect we'd probably need separate background workers for each tailored to the unique needs of each, but perhaps not.

Thoughts?

Change History (3)

comment:1 by robe, 11 years ago

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comment:2 by Bborie Park, 11 years ago

Heh. I have a ticket for rasters... #2526. I have yet to check out the API as I don't think the API has stabilized. Nor have I looked at the contrib package that demos it....

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/0.0/static/test-shm-mq.html

comment:3 by robe, 11 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: PostGIS specific background workersPostGIS specific dynamic background workers

Oh cool :)

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