Re: Best way to use trigger to email a report ?

Personally I'd have your trigger put the necessary data into a queue to run the report then have some other process take that data off asynchronously. Either pop it in a table and do it yourself or use a robust distributed broker protocol platform like RabbitMQ or Apache ActiveMQ or Kafka.

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On 08/05/2020 17:26, David Gauthier wrote:
psql (9.6.0, server 11.3) on linux

Looking for ideas. I want a trigger to...
1) compose an html report based on DB content
2) email the report to a dist list (dl = value of a table column)

If this will involve hybrid coding, I prefer PL/perl. The linux env has both "mail" and "mutt" (if this is of any help).

The idea is to send a report to the list when all the data has been collected for a particular job and the final status of the job is updated as a col of a rec of a certain table. Probably a post update trigger.

Thanks for any ideas :-)

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