Re: Scheduler in Postgres

From: Marco Colombo <pgsql(at)esiway(dot)net>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: "'Pgsql-General(at)Postgresql(dot)Org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Scheduler in Postgres
Date: 2004-12-16 09:12:46
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0412161006170.26177@Megathlon.ESI
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> No, PostgreSQL doesn't have an equivalent to Oracle's dbms_job, but this
> is a question that comes up pretty often. I think the bulk of the work
> to make this happen could be done outside of the core database, so it
> seems a good candidate for pgfoundry.

What's wrong with at, cron, and some trivial shell scripting?
(This is a real question, I wonder what advantages dbms_job has.)

.TM.
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