On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:26 AM David Gauthier <davegauthie...@gmail.com> 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. > I'd probably limit the trigger to checking for the completion of the data collection and inserting a record into a "email job" table. Then I'd have cron on a linux machine periodically run a script that queries the "email job" table for work, perform the work, and then either flag the work as done or remove the job record. David J.
