On 05/07/2018 02:35 PM, David Gauthier wrote:
> Hi:
>
> At the psql prompt, I can do something like...
> "select \! id -nu"
> ...to get the uid of whoever's running psql.
> I want to be able to run a shell command like this from within a stored
> procedure. Is there a way to do this ?
PL/sh?:
https://github.com/petere/plsh
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION id() RETURNS text AS '
#!/bin/sh
id -nu
' LANGUAGE plsh;
aklaver@tito:~> psql -d test -U postgres
test=# select * from id();
id
----------
postgres
It is an untrusted language so you will need to run as a superuser.
>
> Thanks
--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
