CREATE or replace FUNCTION test() RETURNS boolean AS $$
$filename = '/home/postgres';
if (-e $filename) {
exec /home/postgres/test.sh &
return true; }
return false;
$$ LANGUAGE plperlu;
exec /home/postgres/test.sh & its showing syntax error. Could you please help how to call bash script into postgres funtion/procedure
Presumably, the code needs to be syntactically valid Perl. So you'll need to clean up a few bits.
CREATE or replace FUNCTION test() RETURNS boolean AS $$
my $filename = '/home/postgres';
if (-e $filename) {
system '/home/postgres/test.sh' and return 1;
}
return;
$$ LANGUAGE plperlu;
I've changed a few things:
$filename using mysystem instead of exec. exec replaces the current process - effectively never returning to the calling functionsystem expects to be passed a string. So I've added quotes around the commandand is usually better in flow control statements than && (and always much better than & which is for bit-flipping, not flow control)true and false, so I've replaced true with 1 (which is a true value in Perl). And I've removed the false from the other return statement - the default behaviour of return is to return a false valueI don't have a Postgresql installation to test this on. If it still doesn't work, please tell us what errors you get.
system line.
return when the sub is expected to return a scalar (because the sub won't always return a scalar). return 0 would make more sense here.
&& is great for compactly writing logical expressions, like $foo == 27 && $bar >= 5. The low precedence form is best used for flow control, like assert_we_are_done() and return 1; (or gets used for this much more frequently).pl/sh exists, and can be used as a procedual language.
