Re: [GENERAL] Executing external scripts

you did not study the archive hard enough ;-) somebody answered your
question days ago:
no PL for perl. you can use system() (in C) to
hack perl into c. in short, you need to learn c, just a little bit
(ask a c guy for help). -- or has somebody already done this before,
could you send the example code to the listing? thanks!

Kai

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mark Jewiss wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been doing some reading through the documentation and the archives of
> this list but have not got very far yet.
>
> I want to be able to create a trigger that when fired will execute an
> external script. I may require arguments to be passed to the script from
> the trigger.
>
> I can't find a definate yes/no as to whether this can actually be done or
> not in Postgresql 6.5.* - does anybody know?
>
> Looking over the functions section, I might be able to do what I need to
> do using one of the languages. However, I don't know C, and it does not
> apply to what I'm doing anyway. I need to use Perl, but this means writing
> a procedural language handler, which has to be done in C, which I don't
> really know..... :(
>
> Has anybody written, or knows of the existence of, a PL for Perl for
> Postgresql?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark.
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> Mark Jewiss
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