"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:35 PM, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> I want to be able to run a shell command like this from within a stored >> procedure. Is there a way to do this ? > In core, you can probably use the untrusted version of Perl, Python, or > Tcl to accomplish your goal. SQL and pl/pgSQL do not provide that > capability. Depending on what you want to do, COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM might be a serviceable option. But, just like the untrusted-PL variants, you need to be superuser. Keep in mind that the program will run as the database server owner (which is the reason for the superuser restriction). regards, tom lane
