Re: Sending email from PL/pgSQL

Jack Kaufman <jack.kaufman@sanmina.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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