Hi, can any of the programming languages (perl, tcl) be used to exec a process on the server and open files? The scenario I have in mind would - copy some fields of a table to an external text file - have a script generate binary data from the text file - load that data into a large object The client would just select rebuild() Best regards Wolfgang Hamann -- gpg key: 92FCFB25 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general