Rod Taylor <rod.taylor@inquent.com> writes:
> With the number of cron jobs that run a perl script which runs a simple
> SELECT function(); that does various nightly cleanup or maintenance
> (billing run) it would be much nicer to have an actual trigger run every
> 12 hours rather than be initiated by a cron job.
Er ... why? Seems like what you're describing is implementing the guts
of cron in the postmaster. I don't see a real good reason to re-invent
the wheel like that.
regards, tom lane