Re: Writing data to a text file based on a trigger event...

On 2012-04-12, raghupradeep <raghupradeep(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I am basically a MySQL DBA and have little idea on PostgreSQL. In our
> environment we have an application which is using PostgreSQL as its back
> end. The application logs the status of the jobs running in it to a table in
> this database i.e when a job starts it inserts a new row to this table and
> it keeps on updating the column `status` based on the status of the job
> running. So the requirement that we have is I need to capture certain status
> values and based on it need to through alert to our centralized monitoring
> system.
>
> What I need to know is it possible to write a trigger which will write the
> data of the row whose status column gets updated to a text file?

you mean like "RAISE LOG" does? or do you have specific requirements?

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