Re: Query-Sending mail from PostgresSQL

Hi

2016-02-25 4:40 GMT+01:00 Ramesh Rajamanickam <rameshr(dot)bnk(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> Hi,
>
> We are using Postgres. Doing migration from Oracle to Postgres SQL. Now we
> wanted to migrate the Sending mail operation as in oracle. Searched the
> help couldn't able to find the solution. Below is the oracle statement
> used.
>
> UTL_MAIL.send(
> sender => EMAIL_DIST,
> recipients => EMAIL_DIST,
> cc => EMAIL_DIST,
> bcc => EMAIL_DIST,
> subject => Load_Name ,
> message => emesg
> );
>
> Please give your suggestion how we can migrate the above statement to
> Postgres.
>

It is not bug.

PostgreSQL has not this functionality. There is a workaround - you can
write own function in PLPerlu, where you can use some from CPAN libraries
for sending a mail.

http://search.cpan.org/~mivkovic/Mail-Sendmail-0.79/Sendmail.pm
http://postgres.cz/wiki/PL/Perlu_-_Untrusted_Perl_%28en%29

Regards

Pavel

>
> Thanks
> Ramesh Rajamanickam
>