louis gonzales <gonzales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > Hey Brian, > Yeah I had considered this, using cron, I just feel like that is too dirty. Why? > > Actually I didn't see Andreas' post, can someone forward that? Sorry, i posted to the list, and i can see my mail. > > I'm running this application on Solaris 9. Ultimately what I want to know > is, is there something that is internal to postgresql that can be used that > doesn't need external action, to make it do some task? Take a look at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgjob/ > Am I making any sense with how I'm asking this? I could of course have > cron do a scheduled task of checking/incrementing/decrementing and define > triggers to occur when one of the cron delivered actions sets the > appropriate trigger off, but are there other methods that are standard in > the industry or are we stuck with this type of external influence? I'm using PG on Linux-systems and use CRON for any tasks, without any problems. I can't understand your dislike... Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknow) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°
