Re: unlock rows

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net>
Cc: jose antonio leo <jaleo8(at)storelandia(dot)com>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: unlock rows
Date: 2003-03-13 21:35:01
Message-ID: 20030313213501.GA27771@wolff.to
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:58:57 -0800,
Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> wrote:
> What about if one is using a row as a semaphore?
>
> For example, a script accessing the database needs to know if a certain table has any rows in it
> with 'appoved::bool' equal to false before it inserts a row that WILL have that set to false.
> that way, it will generate an email to the site owner to go and look at items in that table and
> approve them.
>
> I wouldn't want an email for each line added.

When you do the query to see who to email you can should have it combine
all of the items for a given site into one message.

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