Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > On 2/11/07, Benjamin Arai <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Hi, > >Is there a way to give priorities to queries or users? Something > >similar to NICE in Linux. My goal is to give the updating (backend) > >application a very low priority and give the web application a high > >priority to avoid disturbing the user experience. > >Thanks in advance! > > with all due respect to Josh who has replied to this question already. Just an idea: You can retrieve the PID and the username of running querys in pg_stat_activity. Perhaps, with this knowledge and an untrusted language you can run system-commands such renice to change the priority of running postmaster-processes. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknow) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°
