Re: Can PostgreSQL notify a client that a trigger has

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 00:39 +0000, Bill wrote:
> Does PostgreSQL have built in mechanism I can use to conditionally
> notify a client application that a trigger has fired? What I want is
> something along the line of the following pseudo code in a trigger.
>
> if <condition> then
>   raise client event
>

Yes, use LISTEN and NOTIFY. Probably it's easiest to write the trigger
in PL/pgSQL.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis