Re: Calling Java from psql (was Re: requesting help)

Peter Mount wrote:
> 
> At 10:33 26/03/01 +0200, Mathijs Brands wrote:
> 
> >Has anybody ever tried calling Java code from a pgsql trigger written
> >in C? Shouldn't this be possible using JNI?
> 
> This was discussed recently.
> 
> >I'm not exactly a Java expert myself, but this is the way PHP allows
> >you to call Java code from your PHP scripts.
> 
> It may be something to look at when things quieten down a bit. I'm rushed
> of my feet at the moment (busy at work, long hours etc) but once 7.1 is
> finally out of the door, I may get the chance to start looking at JNI (& my
> employers don't mind me spending some time working on postgres when I'm not
> on other projects either which is nice ;-) )
> 
> PS: the JDBC list is the best place for java based emails - I rarely read
> sql ;-)
> 
> Peter
> 
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another possible angle is to use perl and its new inline module
{not sure if java is fully supported yet...}
or its other perl->java binding

it should be avail a t cpan