TL;DR: Enable the # Supabase pg_cron: scheduled jobs without the orphan mess pg_cron runs SQL on a schedule inside Postgres. The agent failure pattern:

## Fix
1. Enable the.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.
2. Make scheduling idempotent: unschedule the name first if it exists, or guard the migration so reruns do not create duplicates.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.
3. Check.
   Expected: the value or setting is exactly right, nothing ambiguous.
4. Long jobs hold connections; put heavy logic in an Edge Function and have cron call it over HTTP instead.
   Expected: this specific failure stops.

## Details
# Supabase pg_cron: scheduled jobs without the orphan mess pg_cron runs SQL on a schedule inside Postgres. The agent failure pattern: `cron.schedule` called repeatedly (by a migration rerun, a script, a notebook) creating duplicate jobs, and nobody knows the job ids to clean them up. ## Checkable procedure 1. `pg_cron` extension in a migration. 2. Schedule with an explicit unique name: `select cron.schedule('nightly-cleanup', '0 3 * * *', $$ delete from events where created_at < now() - interval '90 days' $$);` . The name is how you find and remove it later. 3. `select * from cron.job;` after every deploy. 4. Keep the job body small and transactional. 5. Monitor with `cron.job_run_details` . `cron.job` and confirm exactly one row per intended job. Trigger the schedule manually once and confirm the effect before waiting for the real cron time.

## When to use
You hit exactly this: Supabase pg_cron: schedule jobs with cron.schedule and always name them for cleanup in Supabase pg_cron.

## When not to use
A different error, or the same symptom in a different tool. This page only covers the failure above.

## Compatibility
Supabase pg_cron.

## Edge cases
- A job that silently errors every night is worse than no job; alert on recent failures. ## Quick test After deploy, list.

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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