Lance Ivy

Yes, absolutely!

This needs to be part of baseline security in the OSS version.

My only concern is token length, and I don't know off the top of my head if that could be a concern for anyone. Another way to get this information...

> This endpoint will be private. Do you mean that it would be called by the application's backend? Would it make sense for this endpoint to be called by the...

Yes my plan was to eventually make it available to the host app for any extended APIs that may be available with the token. That idea hasn't gone anywhere.

**edit: see followup at https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job_active_record/issues/63#issuecomment-25468573. the new queries may not be a net gain, even without deadlocks.** We were bit by this as well during an upgrade. I set up...

What do you get from an explain on a query with the same `WHERE` and `ORDER` clauses? ``` EXPLAIN SELECT * WHERE ((run_at

I don't think we have the `delayed_jobs_locking` index on our table, but I guess it's not being used? Only other thing I can think of is maybe MySQL's 5.1 query...

MySQL 5.5.x If my fix isn't working for someone, I'd recommend following the steps I described earlier to set up a repro someplace safe to experiment. It's the only way...

@zxiest That sounds like a good way to make DB polling more efficient, but if you're still having trouble with deadlocks, it'll probably come back when you run multiple machines.