Re: Scheduled jobs

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 10:48, Þórhallur Hálfdánarson wrote:
> -*- Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info> [ 2003-05-13 14:42 ]:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:33:25PM +0000, ??rhallur H?lfd?narson wrote:
> > > The suggestion on using ident was to eliminate the need for storing
> > > passwords in the first place...
> >
> > But how are you going to let them run scheduled jobs inside the
> > postmaster if they can't be authenticated, then? You either have to
> > use .pgpass, user kerberos, or use ident; nothing else is safe in the
> > context you're discussing. I don't understand the problem.
>
> I was simply pointing out some scenarios when scheduled jobs are nice. :-)
>
> I believe you have to be authenticated to *create* jobs... and would probably run as the owner, if it gets implemented.

Wouldn't it make more sense to modify cron to be able to read scheduling
details out of the database -- rather than trying to modify PostgreSQL
to try to feed cron?

See examples of FTP, DNS, etc. software that can read authentication
elements from databases -- and the lack of DBs that have knowledge of
how to push data into those services.
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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>

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