Re: scheduler in core

Ah! wxWidgets... Yes, i knew there was something i didn't like about
pgAgent. So is not as simple as installing it

2010/2/20, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Dimitri Fontaine
> <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> wrote:
>> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>>> Why not just use pgAgent? It's far more flexible than the design
>>> you've suggested, and already exists.
>>
>> What would it take to have it included in core, so that it's not a
>> separate install to do? I'd love to have some support for running my
>> maintenance pl functions directly from the database. I mean without
>> installing, running and monitoring another (set of) process.
>
> It's currently written in C++/pl/pgsql and uses wxWidgets, none of
> which couldn't be changed with a little work. Having it in core will
> almost certainly result in reduced functionality though - there are
> use cases in which you may have multiple agents running against one
> control database, or executing jobs on remote databases for example.
>
> We originally wrote the code such that it might be easily included in
> core in the future, but every time this topic comes up in -hackers,
> there are a significant number of people who don't think a scheduler
> should be tied to the core code so we stopped assuming it ever would
> be.
>
> --
> Dave Page
> EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>

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