Re: [GENERAL] EXTPROC External Procedure

2005-02-09 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello, code for genereting xml: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ext.xml(varchar) RETURNS text AS $$ use DBI; use XML::Generator::DBI; use XML::Handler::YAWriter; my $rv = spi_exec_query("SELECT current_setting('client_encoding'), " . "current_database()", 1); my $e

Re: [GENERAL] EXTPROC External Procedure

2005-02-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:29:21AM -0700, Roy Souther wrote: > I need to be able to run a program when some data is requested from the > database. Some query will do a SELECT on a known table and I need to have > some event trigger that makes a call to generate a small XML file and then > post

Re: [GENERAL] EXTPROC External Procedure

2005-02-09 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday February 9 2005 11:29, Roy Souther wrote: > I cannot find any information about wether PostgreSQL has > EXTPROC or not. Can someone tell me if it dose or if there is > a better way to do this. Not sure what version you're using, but sounds like a job for perl (plperl) + a select rule

[GENERAL] EXTPROC External Procedure

2005-02-09 Thread Roy Souther
I cannot find any information about wether PostgreSQL has EXTPROC or not. Can someone tell me if it dose or if there is a better way to do this. I need to be able to run a program when some data is requested from the database. Some query will do a SELECT on a known table and I need to have some