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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:14:22 -0500
From: louis gonzales <gonzales@linuxlouis.net>
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Hello all,
Is there an existing mechanism is postgresql that can automatically 
increment/decrement on a daily basis w/out user interaction?  The use 
case I'm considering is where a student is in some type of contract with 
an instructor of some sort, and that contract puts a time limit on the 
student requiring her to pay a fee by a certain day.  IF that day comes 
to pass - or a certain number of days elapse - and that payment 
requirement hasn't been met, I want to trigger a function.

The one requirement I want to impose is, that no end user of the DB 
application, needs to do anything to set the trigger, other than the 
initialization of making the student of this type.

An example would be:
Day1 - Application user(typically the instructor) creates a profile for 
a new student - John Doe, which sets a 30 day time limit for John Doe to 
pay $100.00
Day2 -> Day31 - John Doe didn't make the payment
Day 31 - Trigger of event occurs when the instructor logs in.

Basically on Day 1 when John Doe's profile was created, I want a 
decrement counter to occur daily on his profile(some attribute/timer) 
and nothing should happen until day 31 when he doesn't pay.

Any ideas?

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