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From: Florents Tselai <[email protected]>
To: Adam Brusselback <[email protected]>
Cc: Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: Job Scheduler
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 11:27:27 +0300
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> On 30 May 2025, at 5:24 PM, Adam Brusselback <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Add me to the +1 for having a built-in scheduler. It's useful for plenty of things like automated partition creation (as noted), scheduling backups, index maintenance, batch processing jobs, etc...
> 
> I wrote jpgAgent (compatible with pgAgent) ~10 years ago because pgAgent was too unstable (and the other scheduling tools hadn't come out yet), but I really wish I didn't have to deal with external tooling for features like this at all.

I could see an argument of adopting pg_cron as a contrib/ module to the core;
not only because it’s become the standard, but it’s a nice example of an extension using bgworker.

But having it in core? I don’t think so; It’s way beyond the scope of an RDBMS,
which already has transactions and SKIP LOCKED, and I think that’s as fast as it should go.

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