Re: EXTPROC External Procedure

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Roy Souther <roy(at)silicontao(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: EXTPROC External Procedure
Date: 2005-02-09 19:00:21
Message-ID: 20050209190021.GA13746@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:29:21AM -0700, Roy Souther wrote:

> I need to be able to run a program when some data is requested from the
> database. Some query will do a SELECT on a known table and I need to have
> some event trigger that makes a call to generate a small XML file and then
> post it to a web server, get a reply back and then update a local table with
> the information it received.

You may be able to use a pl/perlu (untrusted perl) function to do this.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"No reniegues de lo que alguna vez creíste"

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