From: Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ZIP function
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:36:37 +0000
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Quoth jasen@xnet.co.nz (Jasen Betts):
> On 2013-03-16, Victor Sterpu <victor@caido.ro> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a function that will give the resulting zip content for a=20
> > string?
> > Like SELECT zip('test data');?
>
> no. you could write one that calls gzip in one of the untrusted
> languages. or in C you could call zlib.
You can call Compress::Zlib or Archive::Zip (depending on which sort of
'zip' you mean) from (trusted) PL/Perl, provided you load the modules
from plperl.on_init.
Ben
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