On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 00:07, Joe Conway wrote: > Write a Pl/Perl function that just does the syscall, and call it from > PL/pgSQL. Similarly for complex string parsing, etc.
That would work if I could get the Pl/Perl function to return an array or set of results, but this brings me back to the original problem (unless I'm missing something obvious). Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Murtagh Enterprise Systems Administrator ISR / Web Communications Group McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada Tel.: (514) 398-3122 Fax: (514) 398-2017 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend