Re: calling a shell script from pl/pgsql

Stephan Szabo wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jeff Barrett wrote:
> 
> > How can I call a shell script from within a pl/pgsql function that is called
> > as from a trigger. I do not want to interact with the script I just want it
> > to run. I do want the trigger to wait for the script it called to complete
> > before returning a value.
> >
> > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I don't think you can do that from within pl/pgsql.  You'd probably need a
> function in pl/tclu or c.
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if its typical perl you should be able to 
use backticks
my $system=`date`;

$system should be set to the date

or if you dont need any data back as you say

then just

system('date');