On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:24:06PM -0500, Douglas McNaught wrote: > David Rio Deiros <driodeiros@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Then, I wanted to run the full php script from the trigger. I tried > > the script manually, form the shell, and it worked perfectly. Notice > > that the script doesn't generate any stdin/stdout output. So I changed > > the system(3) parameter to call my php script instead of the test one. > > I tried it and it didn't work. The php script doesn't perform the > > modifications it suppose to in the database. > > > > The php script is about 150 lines long and performs like 5 or 6 sql > > queries/inserts against the database. > > Why would you do it that way? The queries/inserts won't be rolled > back if the transaction containing the trigger aborts (because they'd > be done in a separate session). Why not just do your queries from C > using the SPI interface? The code was already in php... plus I am including some other php files so I would have to parse that files from C if I write all in C. I basically didn't want to do extra work. Thanks for the answer, David