Re: [ADMIN] Scheduling Database Tasks

2000-05-26 Thread Reiner Dassing
Hello Ian! Nicolas Huillard proposed the use of cron based scheduling of jobs. This approach will overload you postgres server. There is another solution, which I found, will give you the granularity you will need: you can combine cron based scheuling with the ability of batch job based processi

RE: [ADMIN] Scheduling Database Tasks

2000-05-25 Thread Nicolas Huillard
Relying of fine-grained time for sheduling tasks is usually a bad idea... If for some reason the previous task will take longer, you will load your server with the next one, which will take even longer, and over-load it with the following one... You can rely on cron, and serialize your tasks, us