Re: Knowing new item in table... - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Ken Corey
Subject Re: Knowing new item in table...
Date
Msg-id 0108031127310C.28897@kcorey.intra.atomic-interactive.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Knowing new item in table...  ("macky" <macky@edsamail.com>)
List pgsql-novice
On Friday 03 August 2001 09:26, macky wrote:
> im still in the dark when it comes to postgres..... is there a way i can
> know if there was a new entry on a table...
>
> scenario...
>
>   i have a script that runs every 5 minutes... that script checks if
> there's a new entry in that table... and if YES there's a new entry ill do
> some processing...

Isn't this a perfect example of when a notification and listen setup would be
helpful (assuming that a trigger isn't acceptable)?

-Ken

pgsql-novice by date:

Previous
From: "tamsin"
Date:
Subject: RE: Knowing new item in table...
Next
From: "Joseph"
Date:
Subject: function question