Re: elegant and effective way for running jobs inside a database

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Artur Litwinowicz <admin@ybka.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2012-03-07T14:26:25Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Excerpts from Simon Riggs's message of mié mar 07 05:15:03 -0300 2012:

> We talked about this at last year's Dev meeting. And we got
> sidetracked into "what we really want is stored procedures". Maybe we
> want that, but its a completely separate thing. Please lets not get
> distracted from a very simple thing because of the existence of other
> requirements.

Completely agreed.

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