RE: can we write to a flat file from Postgresql procedure

Its done and committed to CVS, will be in 7.2 release.

Also done is DBD::PgSPI, interface to access postgres from within your
stored procedure. (www.formenos.org/PgSPI)

-alex

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jeff Eckermann wrote:

> I haven't seen anything on this list to say that pl/perlu is being worked
> on.  Is it?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:    Alex Pilosov [SMTP:alex@pilosoft.com]
> > Sent:    Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:03 AM
> > To:    Peter Eisentraut
> > Cc:    R Vijayanath; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> > Subject:    Re: can we write to a flat file from Postgresql procedure
> > 
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > 
> > > R Vijayanath writes:
> > > 
> > > > It would be great if you can tell me if I can write a
> > > > procedure that can write the output to the OS(Linux
> > > > OS) file.
> > > 
> > > You could try out PL/sh for that.
> > > 
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/~petere/plsh.html
> > Well, as long as we all keep plugging our favorite languages, in 7.2, you
> > can use pl/perlu ;)
> > -alex
> > 
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