Re: Does PostgreSQL support job?

Daniel Caune wrote:

> Yes, that's it.  A job is a task, i.e. set of statements, which is
> scheduled to run against a RDBMS at periodical times.  Some RDBMS,
> such as SQL Server

..., the current alpha MySQL, ...

> and Oracle, support that feature, even if such a
> feature is managed differently from a RDBMS to another.


I was amused when I read the MySQL news in LWN.net, because most
comments were things like "what the hell has this half-baked feature has
to do in a RDBMS anyway".

http://lwn.net/Articles/167895/

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