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From: Kevin Kempter <kevink@consistentstate.com>
Organization: Consistent State
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: insert OS command results into a table on a remote system ?
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:10:44 -0600
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Hi All;

I want to gather OS command based stats such as the results of commands 
like: 'df' 'iostat' 'free' etc and put the results into a temp table that I 
can then select from. 

I need to do this all from the db since I wont have OS/shell access, 
only 'psql -h' access. Is this possible?  

Can I somehow leverage the '\!' meta command in psql to pull results of OS 
commands into a table?

Thanks in advance...