Re: Scheduling data input from tab delimited file via php

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald" <dylan(dot)fm(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Scheduling data input from tab delimited file via php
Date: 2006-08-07 04:24:29
Message-ID: 9633.1154924669@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald" <dylan(dot)fm(at)gmail(dot)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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