Re: Trigger email?

Christopher Browne wrote:

>cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com (CSN) writes:
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>>Is it possible to setup a trigger so that every time a
>>certain field is changed, an email is sent? Using
>>pl/pgsql.
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>Something _like_ that is possible.
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you can also do it directly with a trigger if you prefer:

CREATE TRIGGER alert_insert
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON alert FOR EACH ROW
EXECUTE PROCEDURE alert_notify();

Where the alert_notify() function would then call pgmail() with a
meaningful subject and body etc -- see below

>What I would do instead is for the trigger to cause a record to be put
>into a table that might be called something like "submit_email".
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>An asynchronous process (that might look for NOTIFY requests!) would
>then rummage thru submit_email to find messages it needs to send.
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at which point you could then use pgmail() to send the email

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgmail/