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

Quoting A James Lewis <james@fsck.co.uk>:

> 
> Before I go investigating this, is it possible to trigger an arbitrary
> program from the SQL, say a shell script?

In theory yes, but I'd suspect not a good idea.

Even more so with java, as the JVM's startup time is pretty big. Having it talk 
to an already running JVM is the best option.

> Also, why am I getting "not subscribed messages", I am subscribed since
> I'm replying to a message that was sent to me!!

I'm getting that with the patches list as well.

Peter

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Peter Mount wrote:
> 
> > At 21:37 26/03/01 +0200, Mathijs Brands wrote:
> > >On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:00:43PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut allegedly
> wrote:
> > > > Mathijs Brands writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Has anybody ever tried calling Java code from a pgsql trigger
> written
> > > > > in C? Shouldn't this be possible using JNI?
> > > >
> > > > I have, and given the current Java implementations it's a
> desaster.
> > >
> > >That bad eh? Well, I must admit I couldn't get the PHP-Java coupling
> to
> > >work stable either :(
> >
> > Not having looked at the PHP-Java link, are they working as one
> process or
> > is it some IPC type link?
> >
> > PeterM
> >
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> A. James Lewis (james@fsck.co.uk)
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