Dear support team I found a hint in stack overflow: pgagent has to be created in the maintenance database (postgres par default). So the job item occured and a new job was created in the postgres database.
Thank you and best regards Elke Gesendet von Mailspring (https://getmailspring.com/), der besten kostenlosen E-Mail-App für die Arbeit On Juni 16 2020, at 6:58 pm, Elke Hofmann <i...@elkehofmann.net> wrote: > Dear support team > > I am trying to install and run pgagent locally on linux mint 19.1 with > postgresql 11 and pgadmin4. > I added the extension to my database, the schema pgagent was created. > In the tree view of pgadmin "pgagent Jobs" did not appear. > After some attempts to start pgagent manually via pgagent <connectstring> > "pgagent Jobs" appeared. > I created a job, schedule, steps to write something into a table of this > database, and it worked. > But: the job and the jobsteps where NOT persisted in the tables in the schema > pgagent, these remained empty. > Schema pgagent is notabene visible in Navicat, NOT in pgadmin. > I created another job via sql in the database (using Navicat). This hob > worked, too. > I need to be able to manipulate my schedules as well from pgadmin as from the > database. > A colleague of mine installed pgagent on WIndows and showed me the jobs > written in the postgresql database. > > > What was my mistake? > Any help is highly appreciated. > Best regards, Elke Hofmann