---
title: run_job() | Tiger Data Docs
description: Manually run a job
---

Community Since [1.2.0](https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/releases/tag/1.2.0)

Run a previously registered job in the current session. This works for job as well as policies. Since `run_job` is implemented as stored procedure it cannot be executed inside a SELECT query but has to be executed with `CALL`.

Any background worker job can be run in the foreground when executed with `run_job`. You can use this with an increased log level to help debug problems.

## Samples

Set log level shown to client to `DEBUG1` and run the job with the job ID 1000:

```
SET client_min_messages TO DEBUG1;
CALL run_job(1000);
```

## Arguments

The syntax is:

```
CALL run_job(
    job_id = <job_id>
);
```

| Name     | Type    | Default | Required | Description                   |
| -------- | ------- | ------- | -------- | ----------------------------- |
| `job_id` | INTEGER | -       | ✔        | TimescaleDB background job ID |

## Returns

This function returns void.