X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696289F9B14 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 22:26:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07308-02 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 22:25:56 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from houston.familyhealth.com.au (houston.au.fhnetwork.com [203.22.197.21]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA1C9FA278 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 22:25:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from houston.familyhealth.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by houston.familyhealth.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1242573A; Fri, 26 May 2006 09:25:54 +0800 (WST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (work-48.internal [192.168.0.48]) by houston.familyhealth.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FDE525723; Fri, 26 May 2006 09:25:51 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <44765AC8.5060003@calorieking.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:32:56 +0800 From: Christopher Kings-Lynne User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane Cc: Chris Mair , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: lowering priority automatically at connection References: <1148573784.6017.26.camel@dell.home.lan> <13758.1148574403@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <13758.1148574403@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-familyhealth-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-familyhealth-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-familyhealth-MailScanner-From: chris.kings-lynne@calorieking.com X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200605/486 X-Sequence-Number: 19273 > That guy doesn't actually have the foggiest idea what he's doing. > The reason there is no built-in capability to do that is that it *does > not work well*. Search the list archives for "priority inversion" to > find out why not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_inversion