From: Yves Vindevogel <yves.vindevogel@implements.be>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Executing a shell command from a PG function
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:53:39 +0100
Message-ID: <439B0813.3020206@implements.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051210162215.GA42041@winnie.fuhr.org>
References: <439AFA8C.5070303@implements.be>
<20051210162215.GA42041@winnie.fuhr.org>
Thanks Michael and Jaime. The pg/sh thing is probably what I was
looking for.
Tnx
Michael Fuhr wrote:
>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/
>
>
>
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