Re: sending mail from Postgres

On Dec 28, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Christopher Browne wrote:

> Some separate process (perhaps polling, perhaps using NOTIFY/LISTEN)
> would then grab messages from the table and submit them to [whatever
> is the communications layer].
>
> That is a clean sort of design for that sort of thing.

This is precisely how we build things.  Throw in some good locking
mechanisms and you can scale this to incredible levels.