Re: Using Postgresql as application server

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il> wrote:

> We are doing this same sort of thing now. If the transaction goes through,
> the email record gets written to a table. We have a cron job that calls a
> database function that processes all emails that have not been processed
> yet. If the transaction gets rolled back, the email record does not get
> written to the table and the email does not get sent.
> In your scenario, if you send the NOTIFY message and then you roll back the
> transaction, the helper application will still send the email. IOW, doing
> this outside of the database can more easily break your transactional
> integrity.
>
Notify hits on commit, right?

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers