The best way to do this is probably have an auto-increment field in your
table. When your script runs it checks and stores the highest value in that
auto-increment field and compares with the value it had the previous time it
was run. It then returns all records greater than the previous value of the
auto-increment field.
regards
--
Jason Wong
Gremlins Associates
----- Original Message -----
From: macky <macky@edsamail.com>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>; <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Knowing new item in table...
> 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...
>
>
> is there an internal utility that i can use in postgres that can tell me
> that this rows a new commers... hehehe....
>
>
> if someone has other ideas on how to deal with this speak out...
>
> thanks in advance......
>
> btw..
> my idea is that that table will have an addtional column as reference
> lets say column "READ" 1 for yes 0 for NO
>
>
>
>
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