Re: Calling Java from psql (was Re: [SQL] requesting help)

[Peter Eisentraut]

A James Lewis writes:

> Before I go investigating this, is it possible to trigger an arbitrary
> program from the SQL, say a shell script?

At the lowest level, you can generally do anything a C program can do.
Writing the equivalent of system() in SQL should be rather trivial.

You can also take a look at my little toy project PL/sh:

http://www.postgresql.org/~petere/plsh.html

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