On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:35 PM, David Gauthier <davegauthie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi: > > At the psql prompt, I can do something like... > "select \! id -nu" > ...to get the uid of whoever's running psql. > > 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. David J.
