From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is there anyway to...
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:09:06 +0100
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louis gonzales <gonzales@linuxlouis.net> schrieb:
> Hey Brian,
> Yeah I had considered this, using cron, I just feel like that is too dirty.
Why?
>
> Actually I didn't see Andreas' post, can someone forward that?
Sorry, i posted to the list, and i can see my mail.
>
> I'm running this application on Solaris 9. Ultimately what I want to know
> is, is there something that is internal to postgresql that can be used that
> doesn't need external action, to make it do some task?
Take a look at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgjob/> Am I making any sense with how I'm asking this? I could of course have
> cron do a scheduled task of checking/incrementing/decrementing and define
> triggers to occur when one of the cron delivered actions sets the
> appropriate trigger off, but are there other methods that are standard in
> the industry or are we stuck with this type of external influence?
I'm using PG on Linux-systems and use CRON for any tasks, without any
problems. I can't understand your dislike...
Andreas
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