X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5209C9DC8A0 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:28:25 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75836-07-6 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:28:27 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from alvh.no-ip.org (201-220-123-99.bk10-dsl.surnet.cl [201.220.123.99]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392699DCE1B for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:28:22 -0400 (AST) Received: by alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4773CC2DC59; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:28:25 -0300 (CLST) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:28:25 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Daniel Caune Cc: Owen Jacobson , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Does PostgreSQL support job? Message-ID: <20060202002825.GA10816@surnet.cl> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Caune , Owen Jacobson , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org References: <1E293D3FF63A3740B10AD5AAD88535D201755923@UBIMAIL1.ubisoft.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1E293D3FF63A3740B10AD5AAD88535D201755923@UBIMAIL1.ubisoft.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.643 required=5 tests=[AWL=-1.077, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.479, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST=1.44, RCVD_IN_DSBL=1.801] X-Spam-Score: 2.643 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Archive-Number: 200602/14 X-Sequence-Number: 24024 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/ -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support