Re: Can we have time based triggers in Postgresql??

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:16:50PM -0500, Steve Manes wrote:
> I think he probably means like an Oracle job.  Although cron works, that
> would be handy so you wouldn't need to write wrapper scripts just to run
> a proc.

I hate to sound like an oldbie crank (although I'll admit to being a
crank), but what exactly is the advantage supposed to be here?  One
invents a new special bit of database code which exists just so people
don't have to write shell scripts?  I guess the idea gets under my
skin just because I have enough time-based problems without inventing
a new interface to make it more complicated.  Hmm.  Looks like the
sigmonster has gacked up a piece of wisdom.

A

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