Re: Sending email from PL/pgsql

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
Cc: Alexander Deruwe <aderuwe(at)aqs-carcontrol(dot)be>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sending email from PL/pgsql
Date: 2003-10-30 16:20:27
Message-ID: 1067530828.14031.32051.camel@camel
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On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 08:11, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alexander Deruwe schrieb:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to send email from within PL/pgsql.
> > I'd like to do this to avoid code duplication in multiple frontends.
> > Can this be done somehow? Or do I have to write a C function for this
> > purpose? If so, how does one go about that?
> >
>
> And to make it complete, now that plpython is unrestricted,
> you can also use plpythonu for this tasks. Works very well
> since this was one of the tests I had to make just after
> I got my hands on plpythonu ;-)
>

Actually you guys left out pltclu which can do it, code can be found in
the cookbook:

http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres/cookbook/view-one-recipe.adp?recipe_id=292

Robert Treat
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