On 07/28/2015 08:28 PM, hamann.w@t-online.de wrote:
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> Hi,
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> can any of the programming languages (perl, tcl) be used to exec a process on the server
> and open files?
You are looking for untrusted.
For Python that is the only way it comes, hence plpythonu(ntrusted)
For Perl see here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/plperl-trusted.html
That is all I know about.
> The scenario I have in mind would
> - copy some fields of a table to an external text file
> - have a script generate binary data from the text file
So what exactly does the above step entail?
Just wondering if it could be done without leaving the database?
> - load that data into a large object
> The client would just
> select rebuild()
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> Best regards
> Wolfgang Hamann
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