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calling an external (windows) exe

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"Peter Roy"
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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Hi,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Is it possible to call an executable from within a PostgreSQL function?</span></font></div>

Re: calling an external (windows) exe

From
"Sean Davis"
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You can with several of the procedure languages, though I think you would have to use the "untrusted" versions.  I use pl/perl (untrusted) which has the system command.  You can read the docs on the different procedure languages at:
 
 
Sean
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Roy
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:41 AM
Subject: [INTERFACES] calling an external (windows) exe

Hi,

Is it possible to call an executable from within a PostgreSQL function?