Re: pgagent

On 11/6/20 4:26 AM, Gabi Draghici wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1. The job it's a simple call to one stored function like that :
> BEGIN
>  CALL other_user_name.get_function();
> END;
> Problem is that despite the fact that it's long passed by the scheduled
> running time and I tried the "Run now" option (from pgadmin) a couple of
> times, there is no evidence that the job actually runned ! Nothing in
> pgagent log, main log or in pgagent.pga_joblog or pgagent.pga_jobsteplog.
> Is there any way to trace of debug this ?

Is the pgagent daemon running?

You could crank up the the log_statement to 'all'(temporarily as this
can generate a lot of logs) in postgresql.conf and reload the server.
Then tail the Postgres log file when click on 'Run now' to see what
happens.

>
> 2. Yes, pg_cron also looks good and it's my second option if I can't
> make 1 to work.
>
> Regards,
> Gabi
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 11:34 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
> <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 11/5/20 1:07 PM, Gabi Draghici wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed postgresql 12 on sles 15 for some tests. Now I'm
> > interested in some sort of scheduler and from what I've read so far,
> > pgagent should do the job. So I've installed pgagent 4.0. I've
> added a
> > job (which I can see in pgagent.pga_job) but everytime I ran it
> (from
> > pgadmin) nothing happens ! When I start the pgagent I can see "...
> > pgagent ... connection authorized" in the main log. What else
> should I
> > check ?
>
> pg_cron:
>
> https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/10/31/evolving-pg-cron-together/
> <https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/10/31/evolving-pg-cron-together/>
>
> For pgagent what is the job doing and when? Could it be it hasn't run
> because it has not reached it's scheduled time.
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gabi
> >
> >
>
>
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> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
>

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