On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:16:50PM -0500, Steve Manes wrote:
I think he probably means like an Oracle job. Although cron works, that would be handy so you wouldn't need to write wrapper scripts just to run a proc.
I hate to sound like an oldbie crank (although I'll admit to being a crank), but what exactly is the advantage supposed to be here? One invents a new special bit of database code which exists just so people don't have to write shell scripts? I guess the idea gets under my skin just because I have enough time-based problems without inventing a new interface to make it more complicated.
The only real advantage I see are for those people in hosting environments that don't really have access to cron. I suppose it's also valuable in making your scripts more portable as you wouldn't need to make further alterations to the system beyond restoring a database backup or whatnot.
In all, I think PostgreSQL has bigger fish to fry.
Greg
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