On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > > I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 > > Hmph. Works for me on RHEL6. I'm betting that Ubuntu has put in some > weird security restriction, possibly an overreaction to the "shellshock" > bug which was in the exported-functions feature. >
Thank you both for looking at this. While my curiosity is still piqued I've solved the original problem without resorting to exporting a function through a psql invocation. Fortunately, exported functions are still seen by directly called bash scripts so a few other areas where I leverage that feature are still working. I've haven't totally discounted local configuration interplay here - my bashrc is non-trivial and there a few differences between the setups besides versions - though a security enhancement in 16.04 seems plausible. David J.
