User-defined actions

User-defined actions let you schedule custom-defined procedures to run within TimescaleDB. They help you automate periodic tasks that aren’t covered by TimescaleDB’s policy features.

In this section:

• Learn about user-defined actions before you start using them
• Create and register a user-defined action
• Test and debug a user-defined action
• Alter and delete a user-defined action
• Examples of user-defined actions:
  • Use a user-defined action to set up a generic data retention policy that applies across all hypertables
  • Use a user-defined action to implement automatic moving of chunks between tablespaces
  • Use a user-defined action to automatically downsample and compress older chunks