Re: tie user processes to postmaster was:(Re: [HACKERS] scheduler in core)

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I still haven't seen a good reason for not using cron or Task Scheduler
> or other standard tools.

*) provided and popular feature in higher end databases

*) the audience you cater to expects it

*) IMO, it should simply not be necessary to incorporate a secondary
scripting environment to do things like vacuum and backups

*) portable. for example, you can dump a database on linux and restore
to windows without re-implementing your scheduler/scripts

as a consequence,
*) off the shelf utilities/pgfoundry projects, etc can rely and
utilize scheduling behavior

merlin