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Replacing pgAgent with pg_timetable: Part 2 - Installing pg_timetable as a service in Linux

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:07:00 -0400

As stated in Part 1, pgAgent is going away, so I'm focussing on setting up pg_timetable as similar to pgAgent that I can. For this second part, I'm going to go over how to configure pg_timetable as a service on Linux.

A heads up, i really loved the pgAgent UI in pgAdmin so I'm working on one for pg_timetable which is mostly patterned after the pgAgent one. You can see the pull request work in progress pg_timetable UI for pgAdmin. I'm in the middle of cleaning up some loose ends before it is ready for commit.

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http extension for windows updated to include PostgreSQL19 64-bit

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:10:00 -0400

Updated June 21st, 2026 64-bit package for PostgreSQL 19 http extension v1.7.1 release.

For those folks on windows who want to do http gets and posts directly from your PostgreSQL server, we've made binaries for the http extension for PostgreSQL Windows.

These are designed to work with PostgreSQL EDB windows distributions.

If you have PostGIS already installed, many of these files you will also already have since things like the libcurl and PCRE are also packaged with PostGIS.

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Replacing pgAgent with pg_timetable: Part 1

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:01:00 -0400

pgAgent has been my go to scheduling solution for quite some time. Sadly in 6 months it will be completely retired and the pgAgent UI in pgAdmin will be gone. The main reasons I liked pgAgent were:

Cross Platform: I have a lot of windows and linux customers, so this was important.
Nice UI in pgAdmin, so I could do all work with PostgreSQL and schedule things at the same time as well as check status of jobs.
The database backend is PostgreSQL, my favorite database
Supports Multiple Agents with varying OS.
Supports jobs having many ordered steps

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