Re: scheduler in core - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: scheduler in core
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Msg-id b42b73151002221215n1d88f54eo257c110c8b087d50@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: scheduler in core  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Merlin Moncure escribió:
>
>> Like I noted above, what people want to schedule is going to be stored
>> procedures.  Having both would virtually eliminate the need for
>> scripting outside the database, which is a pretty big deal since
>> external scripts are a real pain to keep cross platform.  Since
>> there's probably a lot of overlapping problems in those two features,
>> why not tackle both at once?
>
> Divide and conquer?

When I meant 'tackle', it is more of a 'come to an understanding'
thing.  Normally I would agree with you anyways, but I think what most
people would want to schedule would be stored procedures (sorry to
continually repeat myself here, but I really think this should be
critical to any scheduling proposal), not functions or ad hoc scripts.

merlin


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