On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have been thinking it might be time to start allowing external > programs to be called when certain events occur that require > administrative attention --- this would be a good case for that. > Administrators could configure shell scripts to be run when the network > connection fails or servers drop off the network, alerting them to the > problem. Throwing things into the server logs isn't _active_ enough. Actually, apparently you can do this now ... there is apparently a "mail module" for PostgreSQL that you can use to have the database send email's out ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster