Making PostgreSQL tick: New features in pg_cron

Making PostgreSQL tick: New features in pg_cron

pg_cron adds cron-style scheduling directly to PostgreSQL. It's a pretty mature extension at this point, and recently gained the ability to schedule repeating tasks at intervals as low as every 1s.

The examples in this post are really informative. I like this example, which cleans up the ever-growing cron.job_run_details table by using pg_cron itself to run the cleanup:

SELECT cron.schedule('delete-job-run-details', '0 12 * * *', $$DELETE FROM cron.job_run_details WHERE end_time < now() - …

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