C trigger using system(3) to execute a php script - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Rio Deiros
Subject C trigger using system(3) to execute a php script
Date
Msg-id 20060216190632.GA32576@milhouse.digitaria.com
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Responses Re: C trigger using system(3) to execute a php script  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
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Hi there,

I have written a trigger in C for a postgresql engine (8.0.1) running
on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 machine.

I mainly used the example code from the documentation. The trigger
is working perfectly and it is triggered when I want to.

Then, at some point, I wanted to call an external php script from
the trigger to perform some sql statements against the database.
Before trying that I started writing a very simple php script
which basically created a file in /tmp. It worked.

Then, I wanted to run the full php script from the trigger. I tried
the script manually, form the shell, and it worked perfectly. Notice
that the script doesn't generate any stdin/stdout output. So I changed
the system(3) parameter to call my php script instead of the test one.
I tried it and it didn't work.  The php script doesn't perform the
modifications it suppose to in the database.

The php script is about 150 lines long and performs like 5 or 6 sql
queries/inserts against the database.

Can anyone advice me with these?

Thanks in advance,

David

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