Re: [GENERAL] Equivalent to DBMS_JOB

2003-12-04 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:19:34AM -0500, Arturo Pérez wrote: > >> Does postgreSQL offer anything similar? And please don't >> say use cron. Cron has issues that I'd like to avoid. > > Huh, just curious: what i

Re: [GENERAL] Equivalent to DBMS_JOB

2003-12-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:19:34AM -0500, Arturo Pérez wrote: > Does postgreSQL offer anything similar? And please don't > say use cron. Cron has issues that I'd like to avoid. Huh, just curious: what issues does cron have? -- Alvaro Herrera () "Saca el libro que tu religión considere como el

Re: [GENERAL] Equivalent to DBMS_JOB

2003-12-01 Thread David Fetter
Arturo Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oracle has a kind of cron built-in called DBMS_JOB. You can use it > to run SQL or stored procedures at certain times of day, etc. > > Does postgreSQL offer anything similar? And please don't say use > cron. Why not? > Cron has issues that I'd like to