I wrote an OpenACS module, which worked on Oracle and pg called cronjob. Once per minute it queried a table, ran the sql (if any) and then ran the tcl script (if any), and sent an email report (if there was an email address).
Btw, getting a database handle doesn't require opening a connection, database connections are already established. Getting the handle is fast, releasing them should be automatic. But if the task is really a database task, why not run it inside the database, but I'm not sure how schedule database tasks in pg. Oracle 10g I believe has a nice facility for scheduling tasks, and obviously triggers can fire so you don't have to poll anything. tom jackson On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:41, Titi Ala'ilima wrote: > Hi all, > > What I'd love would be a way to have an nsd thread listen for a certain > db event and fire Tcl as a result. Anyone know how to accomplish this > other than polling? I'd hate to have to grab a handle, query, and then > release a handle. In a pinch I know I could have the db make an HTTP > request. But ideally there would be a persistent connection open and > the db (in this case Oracle, but I'd like to figure out a way that would > work with postgres, too) would report when Tcl needs to be fired. Seems > like nsproxy may be useful for this. > > -Titi > > > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the > email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
