* Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> [010910 12:37]:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jeff Barrett wrote:
>
> > How can I call a shell script from within a pl/pgsql function that is called
> > as from a trigger. I do not want to interact with the script I just want it
> > to run. I do want the trigger to wait for the script it called to complete
> > before returning a value.
> >
> > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I don't think you can do that from within pl/pgsql. You'd probably need a
> function in pl/tclu or c.
You can also look at Peter Eisentraut's PL/sh, but there are
portability issues with it:
I can't seem to find the correct page at the moment, but it's out
there.
LER
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