Re: Can i write a time-trigger?

Thanks,

This pgagent seems to be a good interactive tool. I tried using it, but i
ran into some problems and extensive search didnt yield enough help or
documentation on this. This is a brief list of my doubts.

-- I connected to the 'postgres' database in my pgAdmin and ran the
pgagent.sql file. It claimed to have created a schema called 'pgagent' and
a lot of tables inside it. When i try to run the sql file again, it tells me
the elements already exist. But i couldn't see either the schema or these
tables anywhere. Where did they go?

-- While running the pgagent daemon, what dbname should i specify? Is it
postgres or pgadmin (as the example in
http://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/8.3/tools/pgadmin/1.8.2/pgagent-install.html)
?

-- I created a stored proc in another database and want to schedule a call
to this proc. Am i allowed to do this? Since postgres doesnt allow
cross-database references. But i didnt find any error msg indicating this.

-- I managed to create a 'Job' in pgAdmin with the Definition specifying a
call to my stored proc (without referencing the database). But the
'schedule' here doesnt seem to accept any start date other than "1st jan
1970"! And it selects some random start time which i again have no control
on. Why is this? The calender is brought up when we click on a very narrow
strip inside the 'date' field, where apparently the arrow-mark should have
been. And the OK button in the Schedule dialog always seems to be greyed
out but strangely responds to the 'Enter' key!

-- Ok, i really dont mind the start date, and i managed to schedule it daily
as i wanted. But why does it require me to click on 'Run now' even after
the daemon is running and i've added a properly scheduled job?

-- Is there no command line interface for pgagent? That would be nice since
the GUI doesnt seem to be stable and doesnt throw useful error messages when
there is a problem.

Anyways i achieved my objective in a very easy way using crontab. So i'm
really not going back to pgagent. But just for curiosity, it'll be nice to
know how to make pgagent work for me..

Thanks
Shruthi

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Milen A. Radev <milen(at)radev(dot)net> wrote:

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> Take a look at pgAgent (http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.10/pgagent.html).
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> Milen A. Radev
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