On Saturday 27 September 2003 20:17, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Richard Huxton wrote: > 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.
I would say calling events from external libraries would be a good extension. That could allow for extending postgresql in novel way. e.g. calling a logrecord copy event after a WAL record is written for near real time replication..:-) Shridhar ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])