Re: can we write to a flat file from Postgresql procedure

R Vijayanath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found your name in the Postgresql web site.
>
> It would be great if you can tell me if I can write a
> procedure that can write the output to the OS(Linux
> OS) file.
>
> Can you assist me on this if there is a way to do it.
>
> We are using Postgresql 7.1 running in Linux Redhat
> 7.1.

In version 7.1 is a procedural language PL/TclU. It's an
unrestricted (and thus untrusted) version of PL/Tcl. Meaning,
since it's possible to do any sort of OS level access from
within the backend under the postgres UNIX user-ID, only
Postgres superusers can create functions in that language.

That's the only choice other than C you have. There are no
plans yet to modify PL/pgSQL in that direction.

>
> Thanks in Advance.

You're welcome.

Jan

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