Thread: Triggers: How to make one that fires at a certain time of day?

I'd like to have a table that generates a row entry everyday at
midnight. Is there anyway to create a trigger (or something else) that
would fire at midnight and insert a row into a table?

Thanks!

Jc

Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> I'd like to have a table that generates a row entry everyday at
> midnight. Is there anyway to create a trigger (or something else) that
> would fire at midnight and insert a row into a table?
cron? psql "query"...

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 14:25, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> I'd like to have a table that generates a row entry everyday at
> midnight. Is there anyway to create a trigger (or something else) that
> would fire at midnight and insert a row into a table?

No; the database knows nothing about the passing of time.

The normal way to do this is to use cron to invoke a script that will
insert the row.

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