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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:42 +0100
From: Thomas Pundt <mlists@rp-online.de>
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To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
CC: Dana Holland <dana.holland@navarrocollege.edu>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: installing without shell access
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Scott Marlowe schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Dana Holland
> <dana.holland@navarrocollege.edu> wrote:
>> Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access to a
>> shell?  A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin board system
>> on her website; however, her hosting plan only provides the MySQL database -
>> the bulletin board requires pgsql.  And her hosting plan has no ssh access.
>>
>> So, is it possible to install the database with only ftp access to the
>> account?
> 
> most web languanges ala php allow you to execute arbitrary commands
> (using back ticks in php) so theoretically she could probably do it.
> 

That reminds me having seen something like a shell implemented in PHP:
google for php-shell. I've never used such a beast, though.

Ciao,
Thomas