pgagent(1)						      General Commands Manual							pgagent(1)

NAME

       pgAgent - a job scheduler for PostgreSQL.

SYNOPSIS

       pgagent [-f | -t seconds | -r seconds | -l number] {<connect string>}

DESCRIPTION

       Introduced  in  pgAdmin III v1.4, pgAgent is a job scheduling agent for PostgreSQL, capable of running multi-step batch/shell and SQL tasks
       on complex schedules.

       Full documentation of pgAgent is available in pgAdmin III's online help. Launch pgAdmin III (simply type pgadmin3 at  command  prompt)  and
       select  "Help..." from the "Help" menu. Browse through the pgAdmin III documentation until you find "pgAgent". Both database setup and sys-
       tem part of the installation are detailed. You will also find instructions to create jobs and schedules.

OPTIONS

       -f     run in the foreground (do not detach from the terminal)

       -t seconds
	      poll time interval in seconds (default 10)

       -r seconds
	      retry period after connection abort in seconds (>=10, default 30)

       -l verbosity
	      logging verbosity (ERROR=0, WARNING=1, DEBUG=2, default 0)

       <connect string>
	      The connect string required is a standard PostgreSQL libpq connection string (see the PostgreSQL documentation for further details).
	      For example, the following command line will run pgAgent against a server listening on the localhost, using a database called 'pgad-
	      min', connecting as the user 'postgres': /usr/bin/pgagent hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=pgadmin user=postgres

SEE ALSO

       pgadmin3(1)

AUTHORS

       The content of this manual page was mostly ripped from documentation written by the pgAdmin development	team.  It  was	built  by  Raphael
       Enrici <blacknoz@club-internet.fr> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								 December 26, 2005							pgagent(1)