Re: mail alert

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: Jan Verheyden <jan(dot)verheyden(at)uz(dot)kuleuven(dot)ac(dot)be>
Cc: "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: mail alert
Date: 2009-08-11 17:13:33
Message-ID: 4A81A6BD.1070604@hogranch.com
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Jan Verheyden wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I was looking in what way it’s possible to alert via mail when some
> conditions are true in a database.
>

a probe script that runs periodically (from crontab?) and checks said
conditions, would probably be the best way. this could be tied into a
Nagios style monitoring system if you have a requirement for multiple
different sorts of monitors like that. Nagios would handle little things
like not flooding you with repeated emails if that condition remained true.

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