Re: Can we have time based triggers in Postgresql??

Gregory Wood wrote:

> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> Gregory Wood wrote:
>>> The only real advantage I see are for those people in hosting
>>> environments that don't really have access to cron. I suppose it's
>>> also valuable in making your scripts more portable as you wouldn't
>>> need to make further alterations to the system beyond restoring a
>>> database backup or whatnot.
>>
>> and as soon as one would implement such stuff the users will be asking
>> "and how do I execute shell commands from inside the DB?". Now that
>> would be good thing. In preparation for that we should make the
>> postmaster run under root, so that the pgcron functionality can start
>> those external commands as any user! </irony>
>
> I think you stretched well beyond the scope of my comments, but since

Sure did I and on purpose too, because when you offer "them" the small
finger, you find yourself easily dismembered entirely!

Jan

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