Greenplum Database, built on PostgreSQL and designed for massively parallel data processing, powers analytics at scale.
As with any large-scale distributed system, operability — the ability to observe, manage, and troubleshoot the system — is critical for long-term maintainability, ensuring uptime, and keeping the system healthy.
To streamline operational workflows, Greenplum introduces a Task Scheduler — a lightweight, internal framework designed to run service-oriented tasks at scheduled intervals.
Use cases range from scheduled execution of recurring tasks—such as running utilities like gprecoverseg to recover or rebalance segments, or performing ...