2010/2/20 Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net>
>
> We're not going to change that because some companies have
> insane corporate policies.

I agree, Andrew...
This is an outside benefit...
not a reason or justification...

I believe that a general purpose scheduler is similar to
  the autovacuum... it is not really needed, we can
  always configure an external scheduler.
  But I liked a LOT...

For me is not a question of "must be in core" is a
  question of cost/benefit. I do not see much cost,
  but a lot of benefits:

Like Joshua said "abstract away from external solutions
  and operating system dependencies".
Like Dimitri said "Main advantage over cron or another
  scheduler being that it'd be part of my transactional backups".
To me is the reliability of having the partition creation/removal
  being part of the database, be able of make consolidations,
  cleanups and periodic consistency checks and diagnostics
  without external dependencies.

I wonder if the scheduler already existed before the
  implementation of the autovacuum, its implementation would
  not be a function executed by the in-core scheduler?

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Lucas

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