Proposal: Job Scheduler

Hackers,

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.

Similar to autovacuum, the job scheduler consists of 2 parts: the job launcher and the job worker. The job launcher periodically scans a metadata table and signals the postmaster to start new workers if needed.

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 .

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. Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Cheng