Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: functions get_text() or get_url()

2009-05-23 Thread Stefan Keller
Ok. But again: There is a library mentioned and documented in the famous PostgreSQL book from Douglas & Douglas called pgcurl ( http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgcurl/ ). Where's this gone? Yours, S. 2009/5/20 Robert Haas > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: > > Questions

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: functions get_text() or get_url()

2009-05-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: > Questions: Don't see, why this would be a security issue: How could such a > function do any harm? large files? No, large files aren't the problem. The problem is that the PostgreSQL server process may have rights to access things that the

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: functions get_text() or get_url()

2009-05-20 Thread Stefan Keller
Tom, > Apparently you've not found pg_read_file() ? Thanks a lot. Did'nt find this. This helped! Still, get_url() would be handy too... :-> Questions: Don't see, why this would be a security issue: How could such a function do any harm? large files? Finally: Got some tricky followup questions r

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: functions get_text() or get_url()

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: >> I'd expect functions like get_text() or get_url() in order to do the >> following: >> INSERT INTO collection(id, path, content) VALUES(1, '/tmp/mytext, >> get_text('/tmp/mytext)); Apparently you've not found pg_read_f

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: functions get_text() or get_url()

2009-05-18 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: > How to insert a text file into a field in PostgreSQL? > I'd like to insert a row with fields from a local or remote text file. > I'd expect functions like get_text() or get_url() in order to do the > following: > INSERT INTO collection(id, pa