Re: running maintenance tasks on DB

From: Gunnar R|nning <gunnar(at)candleweb(dot)no>
To: ldm(at)apartia(dot)ch
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: running maintenance tasks on DB
Date: 2000-09-24 14:30:59
Message-ID: x6wvg1oo9o.fsf@thor.candleweb.no
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Louis-David Mitterrand <cunctator(at)apartia(dot)ch> writes:

>
> Indeed I wasn't making much sense talking of mod_perl handlers to
> perform DB maintenance :) The reason I came to thinking about them is
> because cron jobs appear as less elegant and integrated with the whole
> application, they appear as external crutch filling a missing DB
> functionality (running scheduled tasks).
>

I too try too avoid cron with my customers. I tend too look at running
scheduled tasks as an application issue and I usually have a component of
the application performing these tasks. That's easy too implement using
Java, but I'm not sure how to implement in mod_perl.

regards,

Gunnar

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