Over at the Postgres-General mailinglist (no real link to the thread because at this moment the thread hasn’t been completely archived) the question why there couldn’t be a scheduler built into Postgres.
The question is completely logical: many operating systems have many different cron-like solutions. All of them uncompatible. However, building such a thing into Postgres? A database server? I tend to agree with one of the comments made:
Sure, and there’s an advantage to traveling the speed of light, but you’ve got to set your priorities.
Why would there be a need for a multi-platform built-in scheduler for Postgres?