[jira] [Commented] (AIRFLOW-2111) Add the ability to pause/unpause a task within a DAG

["Felix Uellendall (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Felix Uellendall commented on AIRFLOW-2111:
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I think this violates the design of how Airflow' scheduling is supposed to work, because a task is the smallest entity and not should have a paused state where you have to hold the process it is running on. This would be very complex and I dont think this fits in Airflow's Design Concept.

*tl;dr*
[~mreid] I think your task is too big when you have this kind of a issue. When you have smaller tasks that *only do one thing* it should be sufficient to pause the dag so after the current running task has succeeded it will be paused and no more tasks will be queued for running.

> Add the ability to pause/unpause a task within a DAG
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AIRFLOW-2111
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-2111
>             Project: Apache Airflow
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: scheduler, ui
>            Reporter: Mark Reid
>            Priority: Minor
>
> It would be convenient to be able to pause/unpause a task within a DAG (rather than the entire DAG).



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