Re: fetching text file from internet

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Dario Billo <rodario(at)libero(dot)it>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: fetching text file from internet
Date: 2005-03-15 22:41:55
Message-ID: 20050315224155.GB67743@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:30:49PM +0100, Dario Billo wrote:

> Hi to all. I need download text file from internet, and I'll use
> plpgsql, but I don't know if this language can do this. Ideas?

Is there a reason you want to do this in server code instead of in
the client?

If you must implement download functionality on the server side,
then you could write a function in C or one of the other PLs (PL/Perl,
PL/Tcl, PL/Python, etc.) and call it from PL/pgSQL.

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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