Code beauty is subjective. If the next developer that inherits your code yells “WTF!” then incredulously tells all the other devs what you did, then it’s hacky.

Code beauty is subjective. If the next developer that inherits your code yells “WTF!” then incredulously tells all the other devs what you did, then it’s hacky. Yes, invoking shell commands in a db would likely cause that.