Re: Equivalent to DBMS_JOB

Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl (Alvaro Herrera) wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:19:34AM -0500, Arturo Pérez wrote:
>
>> Does postgreSQL offer anything similar? And please don't
>> say use cron. Cron has issues that I'd like to avoid.
>
> Huh, just curious: what issues does cron have?

It does have the demerit that it isn't terribly "transactional." And
the tools for managing jobs are likewise not much transactional.
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