On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 18:19 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Dimitri Fontaine <dfonta...@hi-media.com> writes: > > 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, > > I don't think this really makes sense. There's basically no argument > for having it in core other than "I'm too lazy to install a separate > package". Unlike the case for autovacuum, there isn't anything an > in-core implementation could do that an external one doesn't do as well > or better. So I'm not eager to take on additional maintenance burden > for such a thing.
There is currently no way to run a separate daemon process that runs user code as part of Postgres, so that the startup code gets run immediately we startup, re-run if we crash and shut down cleanly when the server does. If there were some way to run arbitrary code in a daemon using an extensibility API then we wouldn't ever get any requests for the scheduler, cos you could write it yourself without troubling anybody here. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
