ok. I gonna explain a little more my situation.
I have a postgres server (Linux) and clients
(Win2k+delphi application).
I need create a text file with some columns from a
table in the server machine, but this file must be
created only when the user wants. (click button on my
delphi program on t
At this point, I'm not sure I'm understanding your question. I'll try
restating my solution again:
I would have, for example, a Perl script that used the DBI module to
extract information from a given database and then let Perl handle any
relevant text/data manipulation and file creation/manipu
It seems like you would find it much easier to do this with a language
external to postgres (E.g., Perl) than relying on any of the built-in
languages and file I/O mechanisms.
Is there a reason you need postgres to handle this functionality?
-tfo
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Thomas F. O'Connell
Co-Founder, Information Ar
Hi,
Anybody know/have functions or package to create text
file from postgres function?
I want to execute a function to take some fields from
a table and save it in a text file (or xml format).
I need function like:
createfile(filename);
appendtofile(filename,text);
etc.
thanks
