Re: Scheduling data input from tab delimited file via php - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Scheduling data input from tab delimited file via php
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Msg-id 9633.1154924669@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Scheduling data input from tab delimited file via php  ("Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald" <dylan.fm@gmail.com>)
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"Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald" <dylan.fm@gmail.com> writes:
> Can postgres be scheduled for actions like this? Or will I need to
> have the php file schedule the action itself?

Postgres has no built-in job scheduling facility --- our standard answer
is "use cron, we see no need to reinvent that wheel".  If PHP offers
something comparable, and you're more familiar with it than with cron,
by all means use PHP.

            regards, tom lane

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