On Sep 17, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Bima Djaloeis wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am new to PostgreSQL, is it possible to create something so that
>
> 1) If I insert / update / delete an item from my DB...
> 2) ... an awk / shell / external program is executed in my UNIX
> System?
>
> If yes, how do I do this and if no, thanks for telling.
>
> Thanks for reading, any help is appreciated.
You could use a trigger function in an untrusted procedural language
such as plperlu or plpythonu to do that.
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