Jim Nasby wrote:
If I'm understanding what you're trying to do (have a function connect
to an external process?), I don't think anything exists right now. But
it shouldn't be too hard to write something to do that. You might want
to create a generic utility and put it on pgFoundry in case others
find it useful. Oracle has a package that allows for TCP (as well as
other communications) from the database; looking at their interface
might be useful.
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You can easily do that with PLperl
The funtion then connects to the server running on localhost, and sends
some commands terminated with CRLF.
CREATE or REPLACE FUNCTION public.psendpopup(text,text)
RETURNS pg_catalog.varchar AS
$BODY$
use IO::Socket;
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
PeerAddr => 'localhost',
PeerPort => '32000',
Proto => 'tcp',
);
die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
print $sock "null\r\n";
print $sock "send_broadcast\r\n";
print $sock $_[0]."\r\n";
print $sock $_[1]."\r\n";
close($sock);
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plperlu' VOLATILE;
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