Tony Caduto schrieb: > Tino Wildenhain wrote: > >> How do you stop your server sending mail in case a transaction goes >> wild and is sending mails for every updated row in a some megs table? >> > > It would not be smart to send a email via a trigger that updates or > inserts 1000s of rows would it? All the times I have used PL Perl to > send a email that has NEVER been the case. > > I agree that for a super busy server that is running a website or > something I probably would not do it that way(most would send the email > via PHP or whatever). BUT for a GUI client server application(not web > based) it's more than acceptable especially when the emails are being > sent internally to a internal mail server where the connection/send time > is low. It also does not have to be called from a trigger you could > just call it from another function. > > It's not that difficult to catch and handle exceptions in a 8.1 or 8.0 We do not talk about exceptions here. I'm talking about transactions. And you never know who will be aborting a transaction after your call to the function. No need for referral to the fine manuals :-) ++Tino
