Thanks, Scott, for that. I've already experimented a little from doing ftp calls from straight from shell - using PL/sh - of course, this is sub-optimal(!), but was good for an experiment.
Having trouble so far getting PL/php built on v9, too... OK, we'll keep at it! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marl...@gmail.com> To: "Lou Picciano" <loupicci...@comcast.net> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 1:03:29 PM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] FTP client functions? On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Lou Picciano <loupicci...@comcast.net> wrote: > I've dont only cursory research on this so far, so thought I'd ask here > first... > Does anyone know of any ftp client capabilities in Postgresql, any prebuilt > functions or extensions already built? > Or is it a roll-your-own kind of thing? Easiest way would be to install a pl/language that has something like curl available to it. Then it's just simple file access from the language perspective.