Waiting for 9.6 – Add new function pg_notification_queue_usage.

On 17th of July, Robert Haas committed patch:

Add new function pg_notification_queue_usage.
 
This tells you what fraction of NOTIFY's queue is currently filled.
 
Brendan Jurd, reviewed by Merlin Moncure and Gurjeet Singh.  A few
further tweaks by me.

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How to send mail from database?

Similar question has been asked many times on mailing lists and on IRC. Sometimes it's not mail sending, but file/directory creation, or something else that generally requires some interaction with “world outside of database".

Can it be done? Sure. How, then?

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