"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I'm using Ubuntu 16.04
Hmph. Works for me on RHEL6. I'm betting that Ubuntu has put in some
weird security restriction, possibly an overreaction to the "shellshock"
bug which was in the exported-functions feature.
Thank you both for looking at this. While my curiosity is still piqued I've solved the original problem without resorting to exporting a function through a psql invocation. Fortunately, exported functions are still seen by directly called bash scripts so a few other areas where I leverage that feature are still working.
I've haven't totally discounted local configuration interplay here - my bashrc is non-trivial and there a few differences between the setups besides versions - though a security enhancement in 16.04 seems plausible.
David J.
