Wildcard support

[hamanuha]

Hi,

thanks for your great work! Much appreciated.

I just wanted to migrate to v10. But now I noticed that wildcards are not supported anymore.
Unfortunately this is not mentioned in the release notes.
My job system makes heavy use of wildcards to have multiple schedules for the same job for different users.

What's the reason this has been removed? Any plan on adding it back?
Currently this makes it impossible for me to migrate.

[timgit]

I think wildcards will make their way back in to pg-boss in the not too distant future. There were changes in v10 that prevented this, but starting in v11, there will be a way to include them. It won't be in 11.0.0, however.

[hamanuha]

Thanks. That's great to hear. I'll stick to v9 in the meantime.

[MarZab]

@timgit I have the same requirement, but I approached it in a different way.

In my approach, schedules have a queue that is not necesaraly the same as the name of the schedule

boss.schedule('my-schedule','* * * * *',{ },{queue: 'my-queue'})

This way I can support dynamically adding/removing schedules without starting/stopping workers per each queue.

v10 https://github.com/MarZab/pg-boss/tree/v10-multiple-schedules-per-queue
v11 https://github.com/MarZab/pg-boss/tree/v11-multiple-schedules-per-queue

I am happy to contribute to the project in any case - but it would be great to know what the plan is going forward, what we can expect in regards to multi-schedule per queue.

[timgit]

@MarZab I like your idea regarding multiple schedules, but the original question is about "dynamic" queues