Re: tie user processes to postmaster was:(Re: [HACKERS] scheduler in core)

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: tie user processes to postmaster was:(Re: [HACKERS] scheduler in core)
Date: 2010-02-22 21:35:07
Message-ID: b42b73151002221335g21109399vfb3fb7abe005ed9d@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I still haven't seen a good reason for not using cron or Task Scheduler
> or other standard tools.

*) provided and popular feature in higher end databases

*) the audience you cater to expects it

*) IMO, it should simply not be necessary to incorporate a secondary
scripting environment to do things like vacuum and backups

*) portable. for example, you can dump a database on linux and restore
to windows without re-implementing your scheduler/scripts

as a consequence,
*) off the shelf utilities/pgfoundry projects, etc can rely and
utilize scheduling behavior

merlin

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