Re: Proposal: Job Scheduler

On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 16:27 +0800, Wang Cheng wrote:
> We are the PostgreSQL team in Tencent. We have recently developed a job scheduler
> that runs inside the database to schedules and manages jobs similar to Oracle
> DBMS_JOB package, and we would like to contribute this feature to the community.
>
> As far as we know, there are currently two open-sourced job scheduling extensions
> for PostgreSQL: pg_cron (https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron/) and pg_dbms_job
> (https://github.com/MigOpsRepos/pg_dbms_job/tree/main) However, the cron-based
> syntax is not easy to use and suffers some limitations like one-off commands.
> The pg_dbms_job extension is difficult to manage and operate because it runs as
> a standalone process .

There is also pg_timetable:
https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_timetable

> That's why we have developed the job scheduler that runs as a process inside the
> database just like autovacuum.
>
> We can start to send the patch if this idea makes sense to the you.

Perhaps your job scheduler is much better than all the existing ones.
But what would be a compelling reason to keep it in the PostgreSQL source tree?
With PostgreSQL's extensibility features, it should be possible to write your
job scheduler as an extension and maintain it outside the PostgreSQL source.

I am sure that the PostgreSQL community will be happy to use the extension
if it is any good.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe