Thanks for your quick reply.
So, working from your example, I would build a trigger that calls a function that calls the email program?
I'm new to PostgreSQL and I'm a windows developer. I've been using PLPGSQL for all of my functions. The other languages you mentioned, are they easily learned?
> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:03:57 +0100
> From: andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com
> To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Send Email from Postgressql
>
> am Thu, dem 01.02.2007, um 8:54:34 -0600 mailte brian stapel folgendes:
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > I need to notify a user that data has changed. To accomplish this I'd like to
> > create a trigger that watches the specified table, that on change, sends the
> > results returned by a function in the body of an email to a specific user.
> >
> > Is this possible?
>
> Yes.
>
> You can write such with a untrusted pl such as plperlu or plsh.
> I have a function in plsh, within there i call mutt (a command-line mail
> programm on linux) to send mail. The To: and other headers are
> parameters.
>
>
> Andreas
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