Re: include shell commands in query

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 21:56:23 +0200,
  Sebastian Kniat <sebkniat@wp.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
> is posible to include shell commands, like ping, into query?
>  e.x.
> select current_timestamp, "ping IP_adress" into table table_name

You could write a function to do this, but it probably isn't a good idea.
Usually you want something external to the database to run commands based
on information stored in the database.