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title: "Replacing pgAgent with pg_timetable: Part 1"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/replacing-pgagent-with-pg-timetable-part-1-keuxzepf3
source_url: https://postgr.es/p/9mC
type: article
source: "Planet PostgreSQL"
published: 2026-06-21T08:16:48.154Z
updated: 2026-06-21T12:19:44.023Z
tags: ["postgresql"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 5
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Replacing pgAgent with pg_timetable: Part 1

**[Planet PostgreSQL](https://daily.dev/sources/planet-postgresql)** · 2 min read · 5 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

pgAgent is being retired in 6 months, including its pgAdmin UI. pg_timetable is presented as a replacement, sharing most of pgAgent's key features: cross-platform support, PostgreSQL as the backend, multiple agents, and ordered job steps — though it lacks a polished pgAdmin UI. pg_cron is also mentioned as a simpler alternative for SQL-only scheduling. The author contributed a patch to make pg_cron compile on Windows via mingw64, with a follow-up VC++ patch still pending. A future article will compare pg_timetable and pg_cron and may provide Windows binaries for pg_cron.

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