| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jeff Barrett <jbarrett(at)familynetwork(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pl/sh (was Re: calling a shell script from pl/pgsql) |
| Date: | 2001-09-10 18:19:13 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0109101117440.15751-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jeff Barrett wrote:
> >
> > > How can I call a shell script from within a pl/pgsql function that is called
> > > as from a trigger. I do not want to interact with the script I just want it
> > > to run. I do want the trigger to wait for the script it called to complete
> > > before returning a value.
> > >
> > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > I don't think you can do that from within pl/pgsql. You'd probably need a
> > function in pl/tclu or c.
> Or pl/perlu! (Sorry, had to say it).
I thought perlu was added after 7.1? I considered mentioning it, but
realized that it wouldn't help if it wasn't there yet.
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