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

We're posting a flag to a table. The table has an "event" field. When we
post the value "email" into that field, a sweeper app that runs on a
schedule looks for this flag, then takes the value in the message field and
sends that out as an email.

On Sat, May 9, 2020, 12:31 PM Tim Clarke <tim(dot)clarke(at)minerva(dot)info> wrote:

> 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:
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> 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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