| From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Claire McGovern <bramble_za(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Trigger output to file. |
| Date: | 2004-11-21 18:03:46 |
| Message-ID: | 20041121180346.GA21874@winnie.fuhr.org |
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:32:02AM -0800, Claire McGovern wrote:
> I'm looking for the syntax to get a trigger function
> written in PL/pgSQL to write to a text file. I want
> to be able to append to the file and not open as new
> each time I write to it.
As far as I know, the only built-in way to write files from PL/pgSQL
is with COPY, which needs a source table and overwrites rather than
appends. However, you could write a file-appending function in C
or in a procedural language like PL/Perl or PL/Python and call it
from PL/pgSQL.
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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