Postgres OnLine Journal - scheduling

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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Yum addendum for 8.3.5 and PgAgent

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:09:00 -0500

We had the pleasure of doing a fresh install of PostgreSQL 8.3.5 on RedHat EL4 box and when using the Yum repository, we noticed a couple of changes from last time we did this. This could have been an oversight in our documentation before.

Changes to Yum Install for 8.3.5?

In our April 2008 issue we had An Almost Idiot's Guide to PostgreSQL YUM and that article still seems to be surprisingly popular.

In the first step we had:
yum install postgresql
and that as I recall installed the postgresql server in addition to some client libraries.

For 8.3.5 fresh install it seems they are separated and to get the postgresql server you need to do:

yum install postgresql
yum install postgresql-server

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Setting up PgAgent and Doing Scheduled Backups

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:56:00 -0500

What is PgAgent?

PgAgent is a basic scheduling agent that comes packaged with PgAdmin III (since pre-8.0 or so) and that can be managed by PgAdmin III. PgAdmin III is the database administration tool that comes packaged with PostgreSQL. For those familiar with unix/linux cronjobs and crontab structure, PgAgent's scheduling structure should look very familiar. For those familiar with using Microsoft SQL Server Scheduling Agent or Windows Scheduling Tasks, but not used to crontab structure, the PgAdmin III Job Agent interface to PgAgent should look very welcoming, but the schedule tab may look a little unfamiliar.

PgAgent can run both PostgreSQL stored functions and sql statements as well as OS shell commands and batch tasks.

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