<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >adminpack</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 8.4.12 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Additional Supplied Modules" HREF="contrib.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Additional Supplied Modules" HREF="contrib.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="auto_explain" HREF="auto-explain.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2012-05-31T23:30:11"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.4.12 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="contrib.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="contrib.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Appendix F. Additional Supplied Modules</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="contrib.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="auto-explain.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="ADMINPACK" >F.1. adminpack</A ></H1 ><A NAME="AEN114308" ></A ><P > <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >adminpack</TT > provides a number of support functions which <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >pgAdmin</SPAN > and other administration and management tools can use to provide additional functionality, such as remote management of server log files. </P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN114313" >F.1.1. Functions implemented</A ></H2 ><P > The functions implemented by <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >adminpack</TT > can only be run by a superuser. Here's a list of these functions: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >int8 pg_catalog.pg_file_write(fname text, data text, append bool) bool pg_catalog.pg_file_rename(oldname text, newname text, archivename text) bool pg_catalog.pg_file_rename(oldname text, newname text) bool pg_catalog.pg_file_unlink(fname text) setof record pg_catalog.pg_logdir_ls() /* Renaming of existing backend functions for pgAdmin compatibility */ int8 pg_catalog.pg_file_read(fname text, data text, append bool) bigint pg_catalog.pg_file_length(text) int4 pg_catalog.pg_logfile_rotate()</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="contrib.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="auto-explain.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Additional Supplied Modules</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="contrib.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >auto_explain</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >