something silly spotted here...

If you are using transactions, then this is most likely your problem. You are in a catch-22. The trigger fires as part of the transaction, but the data is not there until the commit. The general concept behind triggers is to perform additional table-specific operations (regardless of individual sql operation) that can also be rolled-back if necessary. You could create another table, ie email_retrieve, with a single column containing the row-id. Your trigger would insert into that table instead of invoking 'deadweight'. Then, all you have to do is periodically scan this table for entries, call your script, and remove the entries.

fnord

In reply to Re: perl script & mysql after insert trigger by Illuminatus
in thread perl script & mysql after insert trigger by vxp

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