Communications functions

• 1: NOTIFY

1 - NOTIFY

Sends a specified message to a NOTIFIER.

This is a meta-function. You must call meta-functions in a top-level SELECT statement.

Behavior type

Syntax

NOTIFY ( 'message', 'notifier', 'target-topic' )

Parameters

message

The message to send to the endpoint.

notifier

The name of the NOTIFIER.

target-topic

String that specifies one of the following based on the notifier type:

• Kafka: The name of an existing destination Kafka topic for the message.

  Note

  If the topic doesn't already exist, you can configure your Kafka broker to automatically create the specified topic. For more information, see the Kafka documentataion.

• Syslog: The ProblemDescription subject and channel value.

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Examples

Send a message to confirm that an ETL job is complete:

=> SELECT NOTIFY('ETL Done!', 'my_notifier', 'DB_activity_topic');