Jobs

Timescale natively includes some job-scheduling policies, such as:

• Continuous aggregate policies to automatically refresh continuous aggregates
• Compression policies to compress historical data
• Retention policies to drop historical data
• Reordering policies to reorder data within chunks

If these don't cover your use case, you can create and schedule custom-defined jobs to run within your Timescale Cloud service. They help you automate periodic tasks that aren't covered by the native policies.

In this section you:

• Create and manage jobs
• See the following examples:
  • Set up a generic data retention policy that applies across all hypertables
  • Implement automatic moving of chunks between tablespaces
  • Automatically downsample and compress older chunks