Re: Scheduler in Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marco Colombo
Subject Re: Scheduler in Postgres
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.61.0412161006170.26177@Megathlon.ESI
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In response to Re: Scheduler in Postgres  ("Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>)
Responses Re: Scheduler in Postgres  (Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>)
Re: Scheduler in Postgres  (Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>)
List pgsql-general
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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