PGSQL GENERAL 42 RE SHEDULER IN POSTGRES
From: bench@no-spam (Ben)
Subject: Re: Sheduler in Postgres
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:28:56 -0800 (PST)


cron works pretty well in unix. Scheduled tasks on windows have, in my experience, been on the flakey side.

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, [iso-8859-2] Együd Csaba wrote:

> Hi,
> I should schedule the execution of several stored procedures. Now I use an > NT service for this, but as far as I know e.g. the Oracle has such a thing.
> It would be great if I could fire procedures on a timer basis. > > Is there a better solution for this than mine?
> > Many thanks,
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From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Sheduler in Postgres
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 23:08:45 -0500

The world rejoiced as csegyud@no-spam (Együd Csaba) wrote:
> Hi, I should schedule the execution of several stored > procedures. Now I use an NT service for this, but as far as I know > e.g. the Oracle has such a thing. It would be great if I could fire > procedures on a timer basis.
>
> Is there a better solution for this than mine?

Traditionally, PostgreSQL has consciously omitted such things where they would merely be replicating existing operating system functionality.

On Unix, "cron" is the traditional service that provides this functionality.

I think there's a port to Windows NT, so you could presumably use that if you haven't got any more "native" job scheduler.
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From: smarlowe@no-spam (Scott Marlowe)
Subject: Re: Sheduler in Postgres
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:38:06 -0600

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 07:49, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Traditionally, PostgreSQL has consciously omitted such things where > they would merely be replicating existing operating system > functionality.
> > On Unix, "cron" is the traditional service that provides this > functionality.
> > I think there's a port to Windows NT, so you could presumably use that > if you haven't got any more "native" job scheduler.

I haven't administered a Winbox in a few years, but I remember wincron being quite good back in the day. It's free, but registration gets you support.

http://www.wincron.com/index.html
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