Re: xp_cmdshell equivalent

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:10:53PM -0500, Godshall Michael wrote:
>
> Is their equivalent to SQL Servers xp_cmdshell that can be called in plpsql
> or plperl function?
>
> Michael Godshall

A response on the net at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2003-07/msg00362.php says just :

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That can only be done inside an untrusted procedural language.  plpgsql is
trusted, so it can't do that type of thing.

C, pltclu, plprelu, and, as of 7.4 plpython will let you do that.

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My guess (only a guess) is that the call would then vary per language, so in C it might be int system(const char *
cmdstring)and so on.  I found on google http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/32.html referencing what a trusted
languageis. 
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joe speigle