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  system  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)

       -s file
              log file (messages are logged to STDOUT if not specified)

       -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  'pgadmin',  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 Raphaël Enrici <blacknoz@club-internet.fr> for
       the Debian project (but may be used by others).

                                        December 26, 2005                              pgagent(1)