Re: Export data from a query ran by pgagent

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 3:46 PM Gonzalo Rubio Casas <
gonzalo(dot)rubio(dot)casas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Thanks for your quick response,
>
> I'm afraid dumping the query results into another table is not possible as
> the queried database is a read-only copy of our main database.
>
> I assume there's no way to schedule remote shell script executions with
> pgAgent right? I didn't find anything on the documentation about that
> specific point.
>

No, shell scripts can only be executed on the machine pgAgent runs on. Only
SQL steps support remote execution (because they can be done using the
PostgreSQL wire protocol).

>
> Best,
>
> Gonzalo Rubio-Casas
>
> El jue, 26 nov 2020 a las 15:55, Dave Page (<dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>) escribió:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 2:42 PM Gonzalo Rubio Casas <
>> gonzalo(dot)rubio(dot)casas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I hope someone has an idea because I have been stuck with this for a
>>> couple of days. I'm using pgagent to allow some users of my database to
>>> schedule period *remote* queries that create some reports.
>>>
>>> However, I do not find anywhere on the manual or the mailing list how to
>>> retrieve the result of the ran queries. Alternatively, I have used COPY
>>> statement although that requires the SQL query being run by a superuser
>>> which is not an option anymore as this compromises the general security of
>>> the system.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know or has come with a hack for exporting the information
>>> retrieved by a query run by pgagent? It is important to note that pgagent
>>> jobs are connected to a remote database so the possibility of a shell
>>> script is not possible I'm afraid.
>>>
>>
>> pgAgent isn't designed to do this sort of thing I'm afraid. Given that
>> you can't use a shell script (or COPY), probably the best you could do is
>> have the query results be dumped into a table from which the users can
>> query the data when they need it.
>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
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>>
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>>
>>

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