>> It's certainly not a big deal to use the cron, I just thought maybe
someone
>> had experimented with an internal mechanism. I'd like to try it someday,
>> when I know a lot more about Pg. My current project has an ever-growing
>> number of cron jobs (up to 6 now) and was just thinking about various
ways to
>> tidy it up.
>
>If you like to avoid the aid of your OS maybe Perl is your friend. There
>is a library Schedule::Cron which does the same as the crontab. I guess
>portability is given if you have your scheduler on the application level.
You might also be able to use pl/tcl's after function to do the same thing.
len morgan