I''m hoping someone can help me out. I'm wanting to run GRASS GIS from within a plpythonu function block. But to run GRASS GIS externally, the following environmental variables need to be available to the Postgresql server... GISBASE='/usr/local/grass-6.4.3svn' PATH='$PATH:$GISBASE/bin:$GISBASE/scripts:$GISBASE/lib' PYTHONPATH='${PYTHONPATH}:$GISBASE/etc/python/' PYTHONPATH='${PYTHONPATH}:$GISBASE/etc/python/grass' PYTHONPATH='${PYTHONPATH}:$GISBASE/etc/python/grass/script' LD_LIBRARY_PATH='$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$GISBASE/lib' GIS_LOCK='$$' GISRC='$HOME/.grassrc6' Reference: http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python So far I've added these variables to /etc/bash.bashrc which makes them available to the postgres user (but not the server or pl/python). And I've had no success adding them to... /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/environment #Shell commands are not evaluated. Any suggestions would be appreciated... Thanks Mark -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general