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pgagent mail job
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pgagent-mutt.sh
#!/bin/bash
export PGSERVICE=database
MAILTO=user@example.com
(
cat <<__EOT__
<html>
<body>
<pre>
__EOT__
(
cat <<__EOT__
\pset linestyle ascii
select 'hello world' as message, 42 as answer
__EOT__
) |\
psql -q -1 -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 --pset pager=off
cat <<__EOT__
</pre>
</body>
</html>
__EOT__
) |\
mutt -e "set content_type=text/html" ${MAILTO}
exit $?
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When you want to use pgagent for scheduling within PostgreSQL and want the output to be mailed to you, put the (edited) code into the Definition part of the job in pgAdmin.
The script uses html to format the mailed output.
Note that the script requires a functional pg_service.conf and mutt to be installed.

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