Re: pgAgent stand alone

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "M Lubratt" <mplubratt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgAgent stand alone
Date: 2008-01-21 21:42:50
Message-ID: 937d27e10801211342g3e1b20ddg9d2d27cb0bf290fa@mail.gmail.com
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On 21/01/2008, M Lubratt <mplubratt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm currently running PostgreSQL on a production server and a development
> server. Another function of the development server is to do daily backups
> of the production server. I'd really like to do this with pgAgent.
> However, I can't seem to figure out how to compile/install only pgAgent. I
> don't have X windows on the development server (FreeBSD 6.3) and never plan
> to. I'm running pgAdmin from another machine entirely.
>
> Is there a way to compile and install only pgAgent? It seems to me that its
> function is sufficiently separate from pgAdmin that a standalone
> distribution would be warranted.

It is planned to seperate out pgAgent, but for now we haven't done
that. It should build and link such that it can run without X/GTK etc.
but you will need to compile on a box with it installed, and then move
the binary across.

Regards, Dave.

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