Re: [Firebird-devel] Planning the post v3 development

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

On 04/29/14 16:46, Daniel Rail wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At April 29, 2014, 5:09 AM, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:58:57 +0400, Dmitry Yemanov <fir...@ya...>
>> wrote:
>>> Who should initiate that dedicated listener deamon/user after a server
>>> restart? Should the server attach all the databases itself to check
>>> whether one needs a startup? What about databases unknown to the server
>>> (not present in databases.conf)?
>> If you look at SQL Server, there jobs themselves are not defined for a
>> specific database (although they may depend on one or more databases).
>> AFAIK they are stored in the master database. Execution requires an Agent
>> service to be running.
> And, even with the MS-SQL Agent service, it is no guarantee. We tried
> setting up maintenance plans in MS-SQL 2012, and for some reason, the
> maintenance plan file/record gets corrupted and will not work anymore,
> and is no longer modifiable(and this is after creating multiple
> maintenance plans, even after a full reinstall). So, we simply decided
> to create a PowerShell script that will execute the maintenance tasks
> and use the Windows Task Scheduler to schedule when the script will
> run.
>
> So, for Firebird, I think that it would be up to the user and/or the
> software developer to decide how they would want to execute such
> tasks(either creating their own service, or using a batch/script to
> execute the commands scheduled via a task scheduler). As an example,
> our application has a service(for an n-tier application) that runs on
> the server, and we simply add the maintenance tasks in it, and
> they are scheduled when they are to be executed.
>
> So, for me, it is not something that I see as a priority for Firebird.
> Since there is always another way of doing it.

+1
I also do not see big need in a feature that can be easily replaced with 
std OS tools.