Re: [HACKERS] Timed Triggers?

[Tom Lane]

Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With the number of cron jobs that run a perl script which runs a simple
> SELECT function(); that does various nightly cleanup or maintenance
> (billing run) it would be much nicer to have an actual trigger run every
> 12 hours rather than be initiated by a cron job.

Er ... why?  Seems like what you're describing is implementing the guts
of cron in the postmaster.  I don't see a real good reason to re-invent
the wheel like that.

                        regards, tom lane