Re: Scheduled jobs

On 13 May 2003, Rod Taylor wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 10:48, Þórhallur Hálfdánarson wrote:
> > -*- Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info> [ 2003-05-13 14:42 ]:
> > > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:33:25PM +0000, ??rhallur H?lfd?narson wrote:
> > > > The suggestion on using ident was to eliminate the need for storing
> > > > passwords in the first place...
> > >
> > > But how are you going to let them run scheduled jobs inside the
> > > postmaster if they can't be authenticated, then? You either have to
> > > use .pgpass, user kerberos, or use ident; nothing else is safe in the
> > > context you're discussing. I don't understand the problem.
> >
> > I was simply pointing out some scenarios when scheduled jobs are nice. :-)
> >
> > I believe you have to be authenticated to *create* jobs... and would probably run as the owner, if it gets implemented.
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to modify cron to be able to read scheduling
> details out of the database -- rather than trying to modify PostgreSQL
> to try to feed cron?
>
> See examples of FTP, DNS, etc. software that can read authentication
> elements from databases -- and the lack of DBs that have knowledge of
> how to push data into those services.

Bingo, Rod. You obviously reached across the miles into my head and stole
that from my brain, because honestly I was about 30 seconds from posting
the same thing.