Schedule Jobs from within Postgresql db

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Subject: Schedule Jobs from within Postgresql db
From: "alt.cybercafes" <pmunis@hotmail.com>
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Can i run schedule jobs from with Postgresql database

#2Andrew Sullivan
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Re: Schedule Jobs from within Postgresql db

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:10:02AM -0700, pgsql-gen Newsgroup wrote:

Subject: Schedule Jobs from within Postgresql db
From: "alt.cybercafes" <pmunis@hotmail.com>
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Can i run schedule jobs from with Postgresql database

Why not use cron? They can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the
developers have traditionally tended to prefer using an external
scheduler to building something in the database, because they'd just
have to reimplement everything in those external packages inside the
database.

A

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