Re: Get file size

From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Get file size
Date: 2012-09-04 19:51:42
Message-ID: 4325951.i56NdfSE2T@skynet.simkin.ca
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On Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:09:42 PM Lukas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> maybe someone can give an idea how I cat get sizes of file which location
> is know?
> Lets say I have table with 200k records, in every record one column
> indicates full file path on server for ex. "c:\temp\test.txt" etc. and I
> want to fill that table with file sizes..
> I was looking for function in plpgsql or plpgper languages, but I did not
> found anything what could help me..

This wouldn't be a good use for a database function.

Write it in your favourite client language and connect to the database from
there, where it can run with permissions appropriate to whatever file system
it's reading.

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