Re: Sending email from PL/pgSQL

Alan and Andreas,

Thank you! You both said essentially the same thing: That I will need to
write the email attributes to a table and have a script on the server call
the email client. So that is the way I will proceed. Thank you both for
your replies and for helping me move along toward solving this problem.

Take care, Jack

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Andreas Kretschmer <
akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> wrote:

> Jack Kaufman <jack(dot)kaufman(at)sanmina(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Would someone provide an example of how to send email from a PL/pgSQL
> function?
>
> You can't do that. Pl/pgsql is a so called 'trusted language', you can't
> call functions outside the database. What you can do:
>
> - fill a table with tasks (address, content and so) and use, for
> instance, a cron-job to retrieve data from this table, send the mail
> and delete the record
> - use untrusted languages like pl/perlU, pl/sh or other
> - use a listen/notify - mechanism to do that
>
> Within a pl/pgsql - function all is in a transaction - but you can't fetch
> back an email.
>
>
> Andreas
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