Opened 10 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#2724 closed enhancement

PostGIS specific background workers — at Version 1

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 9.3+. 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 9.3+.

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?

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comment:1 by robe, 10 years ago

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