Ah! wxWidgets... Yes, i knew there was something i didn't like about pgAgent. So is not as simple as installing it
2010/2/20, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org>: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Dimitri Fontaine > <dfonta...@hi-media.com> wrote: >> Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: >>> Why not just use pgAgent? It's far more flexible than the design >>> you've suggested, and already exists. >> >> What would it take to have it included in core, so that it's not a >> separate install to do? I'd love to have some support for running my >> maintenance pl functions directly from the database. I mean without >> installing, running and monitoring another (set of) process. > > It's currently written in C++/pl/pgsql and uses wxWidgets, none of > which couldn't be changed with a little work. Having it in core will > almost certainly result in reduced functionality though - there are > use cases in which you may have multiple agents running against one > control database, or executing jobs on remote databases for example. > > We originally wrote the code such that it might be easily included in > core in the future, but every time this topic comes up in -hackers, > there are a significant number of people who don't think a scheduler > should be tied to the core code so we stopped assuming it ever would > be. > > -- > Dave Page > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil Atentamente, Jaime Casanova Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas Guayaquil - Ecuador Cel. +59387171157 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers