From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.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: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:25:32 +0100
Message-ID: <43E2165C.1000409@logix-tt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E293D3FF63A3740B10AD5AAD88535D201755A97@UBIMAIL1.ubisoft.org>
References: <1E293D3FF63A3740B10AD5AAD88535D201755A97@UBIMAIL1.ubisoft.org>
Hi, Daniel,
Daniel Caune wrote:
>>> I'm not sure to understand. Why calling a function from a script is
>>> different from executing a series of SQL commands?
[snip]
>>>Does that make sense?
>>It does make sense if myjob() does more than just execute a bunch of
>>statements, e. G. it contains if(), loops or something else.
>>PLPGSQL is turing complete, plain SQL is not.
> Yes, indeed, that was the idea!
There's another reason: For updating the cron job SQL commands, you need
root access (or at least shell access) to the database machine. For
updating a stored procedure, you need just the appropriate rights in the
database.
On larger deployments, this can be an important difference.
Markus
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