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Subject: Re: Does PostgreSQL support job?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:59:33 -0800
Message-ID: <144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC1FAB6F@nelson.osl.com>
Thread-Topic: Does PostgreSQL support job?
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From: "Owen Jacobson" <ojacobson@osl.com>
To: "Daniel Caune" <daniel.caune@ubisoft.com>,
	<pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>

Daniel Caune wrote:
> Hi,
> =20
> I try to find in the documentation whether PostgreSQL supports job,=20
> but I miserably failed.  Does PostgreSQL support job?  If not, what
> is the mechanism mostly adopted by PostgreSQL administrators for=20
> 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