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From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: fetching text file from internet
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In response to fetching text file from internet  (Dario Billo <rodario@libero.it>)
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:30:49PM +0100, Dario Billo wrote:

> Hi to all. I need  download text file from internet, and I'll use
> plpgsql, but I don't know if this language can do this. Ideas?

Is there a reason you want to do this in server code instead of in
the client?

If you must implement download functionality on the server side,
then you could write a function in C or one of the other PLs (PL/Perl,
PL/Tcl, PL/Python, etc.) and call it from PL/pgSQL.

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Michael Fuhr
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