Re: Automatic export

On Wed, July 26, 2006 3:17 pm, Keith Worthington said:
> Hi All,
>
> I need to export several records of a single colum from a table in a
> database everytime that table is updated. The data needs to end up in a
> text file. Can someone give me an idea on where to get started? URL's to
> relevant documentation would be appreciated. TIA

I'd start here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/triggers.html

Write a trigger on insert/update on that table, and have it export the
records.

Daniel T. Staal

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