Re: 7.1 triggering capability question

Posted in 1995

Billy Wheeler — 16 Nov 1995 02:08:03 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>We are trying to evaluate the triggering capability of the Informix 7.1 engine. >We are specifically interested in finding out if a trigger can invoke >a stand alone unix process. Dear Bill, I haven't actually done this myself, but I understand it is possible. You need the trigger to call a stored procedure, and within the SP you use the SYSTEM command to run a UNIX process. HTH. -- Cheers, Billy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- New, improved, shorter .sig