From: | CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: untrusted languages and non-global superusers? |
Date: | 2005-08-04 08:35:47 |
Message-ID: | 20050804083547.36096.qmail@web52906.mail.yahoo.com |
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--- Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> wrote:
> > > > (The function uses mail(), so IIRC that
> > > necessitates
> > > > using plphpu).
> > >
> > > Sending mail from a database function (or doing
> > > anything else that
> > > involves external side-effects) is generally A
> Bad
> > > Idea, for reasons
> > > that have been covered many times in the list
> > > archives.
> >
> > Why, exactly? In this situation I just set up a
> > trigger that sends a welcome email to newly
> inserted
> > members. Very convenient.
>
> Why cant your application handle this?
> Otoh, why dont you provide a function to send mail,
> which takes some parameters and just let your users
> use them? No need for everybody to write her own
> mail function.
Convenience! I want the email sent whether the member
is added via the web interface, directly in the
database, from the command line, etc. I don't see any
downside. It's only one user that'll be using this
function.
CSN
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