From: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: insert OS command results into a table on a remote system ?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:00:41 +0000
Message-ID: <m3mxv4xhs6.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (raw)
References: <201006091010.44437.kevink@consistentstate.com>
Kevin Kempter <kevink@consistentstate.com> wrote:
> 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?
psql's "\!" commands are executed on the /client/ box. You
could try using PL/Perl or PL/Python, but chances are that
if you aren't allowed shell access to the database server,
these paths of entry are also blocked.
Tim
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