Re: Scheduled jobs

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Scheduled jobs
Date: 2003-05-12 23:29:46
Message-ID: m3ptmnn3px.fsf@chvatal.cbbrowne.com
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Quoth nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk ("Nigel J. Andrews"):
> I believe this has arisen several times and each time there's been
> no enthusiasm to stick cron into the core which I think is a
> reasonable stance.

I think it _would_ be kind of neat to set up some tables to contain
what's in the postgres user's crontab, and have a pair of stored
procedures to move data in and out. If you had some Truly Appalling
number of cron jobs, manipulating them in a database could well be a
great way to do it.

That is, of course, quite separate from having cron in the core. And
having a _good_ set of semantics for the push/pull is a nontrivial
matter...
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