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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:22:15 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Yves Vindevogel <yves.vindevogel@implements.be>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Executing a shell command from a PG function
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:55:56PM +0100, Yves Vindevogel wrote:
> Is it possible to run a shell script, passing values of fields to it, in 
> a Postgres function ?

Not directly from SQL or PL/pgSQL functions, but you can execute
shell commands with the untrusted versions of PL/Perl, PL/Tcl,
PL/Python, etc.  There's even a PL/sh:

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/plsh/

-- 
Michael Fuhr