Re: Calling a Postgres utility in pgpsql function

This could be done with C if the author of this wonderful utility decided to make it a shared library ;)

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> [mailto:pgadmin-support-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> Guillaume Lelarge
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:59 AM
> To: Vish Phaneendra
> Cc: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Calling a Postgres utility in
> pgpsql function
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>
> Vish Phaneendra a écrit :
> > [...]
> > Is it possible to call a postgres utility from pgpsql function? I'm
> > trying to get the table definition using the pgpsql function.
> >
> > CREATE FUNCTION table_definition(text) RETURNS text AS $$
> pg_dump -st
> > $1 $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
> >
>
> No, you can't with PL/pgsql. But you can certainly do that with
> untrusted PL like PL/Perlu or PL/Pythonu.
>
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