Re: [GENERAL] Sheduler in Postgres

2004-12-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 07:49, Christopher Browne wrote: > Traditionally, PostgreSQL has consciously omitted such things where > they would merely be replicating existing operating system > functionality. > > On Unix, "cron" is the traditional service that provides this > functionality. > > I think

Re: [GENERAL] Sheduler in Postgres

2004-12-13 Thread Christopher Browne
Traditionally, PostgreSQL has consciously omitted such things where they would merely be replicating existing operating system functionality. On Unix, "cron" is the traditional service that provides this functionality. I think there's a port to Windows NT, so you could presumably use that if you

Re: [GENERAL] Sheduler in Postgres

2004-12-10 Thread Együd Csaba (Freemail)
, but I thought this should be inside the server. Thak you, -- Csaba -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Browne Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 5:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Sheduler in Postgres The wo

Re: [GENERAL] Sheduler in Postgres

2004-12-10 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Együd Csaba) wrote: > Hi, I should schedule the execution of several stored > procedures. Now I use an NT service for this, but as far as I know > e.g. the Oracle has such a thing. It would be great if I could fire > procedures on a timer basis. > > Is ther

Re: [GENERAL] Sheduler in Postgres

2004-12-10 Thread Ben
cron works pretty well in unix. Scheduled tasks on windows have, in my experience, been on the flakey side. On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, [iso-8859-2] Együd Csaba wrote: > Hi, > I should schedule the execution of several stored procedures. Now I use an > NT service for this, but as far as I know e.g. the

[GENERAL] Sheduler in Postgres

2004-12-10 Thread Együd Csaba
Hi, I should schedule the execution of several stored procedures. Now I use an NT service for this, but as far as I know e.g. the Oracle has such a thing. It would be great if I could fire procedures on a timer basis. Is there a better solution for this than mine? Many thanks, -- Csaba --- O