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 ...
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I guess someting such as
CREATE TRIGGER my_trig ON BEGIN / COMMIT EXECUTE ...
would be nice. I think this can be used for many perposes (not necessarily 2PC).
If a trigger could handle database events and not just events on tables.
ON BEGIN ON COMMIT ON CREATE TABLE , ...
We could have used that so often in the past in countless applications.
Regards,
Hans
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