Re: Sending Email - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Bud Rogers
Subject Re: Sending Email
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Msg-id E16RLvp-0003mg-00@sirinet.net
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In response to Re: Sending Email  (Jason Earl <jason.earl@simplot.com>)
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On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:19 pm, Jason Earl wrote:

> The way to do this in a transaction safe way is to have some sort of
> process that runs outside of PostgreSQL.  You put the information
> necessary to generate your email into a table, and then you call the
> process (probably from cron).

> Besides, generating and sending email is probably easier to do from
> Python or Perl than any method available internally to PostgreSQL.

It would be trivial to do in perl with DBI and MailTools.

--
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>
All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.

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