Re: Executing a shell command from a PG function - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Yves Vindevogel
Subject Re: Executing a shell command from a PG function
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Msg-id 439B0813.3020206@implements.be
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In response to Re: Executing a shell command from a PG function  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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Thanks Michael and Jaime.  The pg/sh thing is probably what I was
looking for.
Tnx


Michael Fuhr wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 04:55:56PM +0100, Yves Vindevogel wrote:
>
>
>>Is it possible to run a shell script, passing values of fields to it, in
>>a Postgres function ?
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>Not directly from SQL or PL/pgSQL functions, but you can execute
>shell commands with the untrusted versions of PL/Perl, PL/Tcl,
>PL/Python, etc.  There's even a PL/sh:
>
>http://pgfoundry.org/projects/plsh/
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