From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Daniel Caune <daniel.caune@ubisoft.com>
Cc: Owen Jacobson <ojacobson@osl.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Does PostgreSQL support job?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:28:25 -0300
Message-ID: <20060202002825.GA10816@surnet.cl> (raw)
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Daniel Caune wrote:
> Yes, that's it. A job is a task, i.e. set of statements, which is
> scheduled to run against a RDBMS at periodical times. Some RDBMS,
> such as SQL Server
..., the current alpha MySQL, ...
> and Oracle, support that feature, even if such a
> feature is managed differently from a RDBMS to another.
I was amused when I read the MySQL news in LWN.net, because most
comments were things like "what the hell has this half-baked feature has
to do in a RDBMS anyway".
http://lwn.net/Articles/167895/
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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