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• worker_spark
  • Quickstart
  • Remarks
  • Author
  • Licence

worker_spark

A background worker for PostgreSQL 9.3 which executes a procedure at regular intervals.

Quickstart

First, create a procedure that produces some visible effects:

CREATE FUNCTION public.my_spark()
RETURNS void
LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $$
BEGIN
    RAISE LOG 'Spark!';
END;
$$;

Then, add the following lines to postgresql.conf:

shared_preload_libraries = 'worker_spark'
worker_spark.database = 'my_db'
worker_spark.schema = 'public'
worker_spark.procedure = 'my_spark'
worker_spark.naptime = 5

Finally, restart PostgreSQL and watch its logfile. You should see a "Spark!" LOG message every 5 seconds.

Remarks

You can produce more complex effects with a more complex procedure.

All the worker_spark.* settings require a restart to be changed.

If the procedure does not exist, no error message is raised.

Author

Gianni Ciolli gianni.ciolli@2ndquadrant.it

Licence

The code is modelled on the worker_spi contrib module distributed with PostgreSQL 9.3, and is released under the same licence.