From: Owen Jacobson <ojacobson@osl.com>
To: Daniel Caune <daniel.caune@ubisoft.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Does PostgreSQL support job?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:59:33 -0800
Message-ID: <144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC1FAB6F@nelson.osl.com> (raw)
Daniel Caune wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to find in the documentation whether PostgreSQL supports job,
> but I miserably failed. Does PostgreSQL support job? If not, what
> is the mechanism mostly adopted by PostgreSQL administrators for
> running jobs against PostgreSQL? I was thinking about using
> cron/plsql/sql-scripts on Linux.
The answer really depends on what you mean by "jobs". If you have a database task that can be expressed as a series of commands with no interaction involved, you can just put those commands in a file (your-job-name.sql) and run it using psql and cron:
# replace leading stars with cron time settings
* * * * * psql your-database -i your-job-name.sql
If you need something more complex, either a function which is executed from a script or a full-blown client program may be required. IME that's fairly rare.
-Owen
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