On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:32:02AM -0800, Claire McGovern wrote:
> I'm looking for the syntax to get a trigger function
> written in PL/pgSQL to write to a text file. I want
> to be able to append to the file and not open as new
> each time I write to it.
As far as I know, the only built-in way to write files from PL/pgSQL
is with COPY, which needs a source table and overwrites rather than
appends. However, you could write a file-appending function in C
or in a procedural language like PL/Perl or PL/Python and call it
from PL/pgSQL.
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
