Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> > I have been thinking it might be time to start allowing external
> > programs to be called when certain events occur that require
> > administrative attention --- this would be a good case for that.
> > Administrators could configure shell scripts to be run when the network
> > connection fails or servers drop off the network, alerting them to the
> > problem. Throwing things into the server logs isn't _active_ enough.
>
> Actually, apparently you can do this now ... there is apparently a "mail
> module" for PostgreSQL that you can use to have the database send email's
> out ...
The only part that needs to be added is the ability to call an external
program when some even occurs, like a database write failure.
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