On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I still haven't seen a good reason for not using cron or Task Scheduler > or other standard tools.
*) provided and popular feature in higher end databases *) the audience you cater to expects it *) IMO, it should simply not be necessary to incorporate a secondary scripting environment to do things like vacuum and backups *) portable. for example, you can dump a database on linux and restore to windows without re-implementing your scheduler/scripts as a consequence, *) off the shelf utilities/pgfoundry projects, etc can rely and utilize scheduling behavior merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
