根据特定日期更新Postgresql中的列

Question

I'm wondering if I could use trigger with PostgrSQL to update a column where I do have column with date type and on this date I would like to updated another column in another table.

To make it more clear

I do have 2 tables

Works_locations table

walphid         wnumberid   locationid
DRAR            1012          101
PAPR            1013          105
PAHF            1014          105
ETAR            1007          102
DRWS            1007          102

the locationsid attribute refers to "locid' in Locations table which is down

locid   locname     
101     Storage 
102     Gallary A   
103     Gallary B   
104     Gallary C   
105     Lobby   

Exhibition table

exhid       exhname       description       strtdate        endDate
101         Famous         Blah Blah        2013-07-15      2013-10-13

and here are bridge table to connect the exhibition table with the locations table

locationsid     exhibitid
102             102
103             101
104             103

Now Each exhibition has some works and should be placed in one of the locations table.

On the 'endDate' column in the exhibition table, which is a date data type, I would like to update 'locationid' column in the Works locations table to be placed in another location.

In another words. Each exhibitions has some works and this works are placed in one of the locations. at the ending date of the exhibition, I would like to change the locations, and specifically, I would like the work to be returned to the storage.

Any idea how would I do this action with postgresql?

Regard

Answer 1

PostgreSQL does not have a built-in task scheduler. Even if there was a scheduler, the commands it ran wouldn't be triggers, they'd just be be procedures run by a scheduler.

You can't write triggers that fire at some arbitrary time.

You will need to use cron , Task Scheduler, PgAgent, or similar to run the statements at the desired time. Or you could write a script that checks when the next event is, sleeps until then, runs the desired command and marks that event as done, and sleeps until the next event.