Re: [SQL] a script that queries database periodically

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Bernie Huang wrote:

> I was thinking of writing up a PHP script and put into crontab, which is
> somehow easier than a shell script, but PHP is an apache module, so I
> cannot execute PHP under crontab (it has to be executed in a browser
> right?).  I guess a shell script is necessary.  So, is it possible to
> call 'psql' and returning its query result and I can use sendmail to
> email the result? Any other idea?

Is there any reason to not use Perl & DBI or the Pg.pm module?

Brett W. McCoy
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