On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:24:06PM -0500, Douglas McNaught wrote:
> David Rio Deiros <driodeiros@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Then, I wanted to run the full php script from the trigger. I tried
> > the script manually, form the shell, and it worked perfectly. Notice
> > that the script doesn't generate any stdin/stdout output. So I changed
> > the system(3) parameter to call my php script instead of the test one.
> > I tried it and it didn't work. The php script doesn't perform the
> > modifications it suppose to in the database.
> >
> > The php script is about 150 lines long and performs like 5 or 6 sql
> > queries/inserts against the database.
>
> Why would you do it that way? The queries/inserts won't be rolled
> back if the transaction containing the trigger aborts (because they'd
> be done in a separate session). Why not just do your queries from C
> using the SPI interface?
The code was already in php... plus I am including some other php
files so I would have to parse that files from C if I write all in C. I
basically didn't want to do extra work.
Thanks for the answer,
David