triggers on date?

Started by Lev Lvovskyalmost 24 years ago4 messagesgeneral
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#1Lev Lvovsky
lists1@sonous.com

is it possible to create a trigger when the system time has reached the
date of a particular record? I know this is possible with an external
script, but I'm not quite sure how to go about making it fairly
real-time...

thanks!
-lev

#2Jason Earl
jason.earl@simplot.com
In reply to: Lev Lvovsky (#1)
Re: triggers on date?

If it only needs to be /fairly/ realtime, then you could use cron to
fire a script every minute. Otherwise you could write an external
long-running program that listens for notifies.

Jason

Lev Lvovsky <lists1@sonous.com> writes:

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is it possible to create a trigger when the system time has reached the
date of a particular record? I know this is possible with an external
script, but I'm not quite sure how to go about making it fairly
real-time...

thanks!
-lev

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#3Lev Lvovsky
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In reply to: Jason Earl (#2)
Re: triggers on date?

this is for a billing system, at this point it's a toss-up b/w the
following:

1. a script grabs clients which need billing on a nightly basis
2. a script grabs clients which need billing for a particular time
interval (every hour, ever two hours etc...).

what methods are used for making this close to real-time - constant
polling?

thanks!
-lev

On 2 Jul 2002, Jason Earl wrote:

If it only needs to be /fairly/ realtime, then you could use cron to
fire a script every minute. Otherwise you could write an external
long-running program that listens for notifies.

Jason

Lev Lvovsky <lists1@sonous.com> writes:

is it possible to create a trigger when the system time has reached the
date of a particular record? I know this is possible with an external
script, but I'm not quite sure how to go about making it fairly
real-time...

thanks!
-lev

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#4Jason Earl
jason.earl@simplot.com
In reply to: Lev Lvovsky (#3)
Re: triggers on date?

With cron you could make your script "grab clients" every minute. If
you need even smaller increments between checks then the thing to do
would be to write a long running program.

Jason

Lev Lvovsky <lists1@sonous.com> writes:

Show quoted text

this is for a billing system, at this point it's a toss-up b/w the
following:

1. a script grabs clients which need billing on a nightly basis
2. a script grabs clients which need billing for a particular time
interval (every hour, ever two hours etc...).

what methods are used for making this close to real-time - constant
polling?

thanks!
-lev

On 2 Jul 2002, Jason Earl wrote:

If it only needs to be /fairly/ realtime, then you could use cron to
fire a script every minute. Otherwise you could write an external
long-running program that listens for notifies.

Jason

Lev Lvovsky <lists1@sonous.com> writes:

is it possible to create a trigger when the system time has reached the
date of a particular record? I know this is possible with an external
script, but I'm not quite sure how to go about making it fairly
real-time...

thanks!
-lev

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