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Shell access & send email from PLPGSQL?

Hello,

How can open a unix shell from a PLPGSQL function / trigger?

I would like to send an email from a postgres database, and also send some unix commands to the server, through the database...

Thanks

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Philippe Lang
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Nov 12 '05 #1
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Why not create a cron script which connects to the database and queries
your tables (using psql). Have it generate an output (shell) script which
your original script then calls.

Unfortunately I know how to do this with Oracle, but not postgres *yet*,
but I suspect that in principle this idea will work.

Maybe someone else has an example, or a better suggestion.

John Sidney-Woollett
Philippe Lang said:
Hello,

How can open a unix shell from a PLPGSQL function / trigger?

I would like to send an email from a postgres database, and also send some
unix commands to the server, through the database...

Thanks

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Philippe Lang
Attik System
http://www.attiksystem.ch

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Nov 12 '05 #2
Hello

If you require only send mail, try pgsendmail.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=35804.
You can use plsh too.
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/pgplsh/

regards
Pavel Stehule

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Philippe Lang wrote:
Hello,

How can open a unix shell from a PLPGSQL function / trigger?

I would like to send an email from a postgres database, and also send some unix commands to the server, through the database...

Thanks

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Attik System
http://www.attiksystem.ch

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Philippe Lang wrote:
Hello,

How can open a unix shell from a PLPGSQL function / trigger?

I would like to send an email from a postgres database, and also send some unix commands to the server, through the database...


http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql...1/msg00098.php

HTH

Shridhar
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