Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3.
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Msg-id 200608091455.k79EtUf12952@momjian.us
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In response to Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3.  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:38:22AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > There are three separate issues we seem to be talking about.
> > 
> > 1. Namespaces - visibility or otherwise of objects
> > 2. Procedural state - something that looks like a shared variable
> > 3. Packaging - installation/dependency handling
> 
> Well, it would be nice to have some clarification about the expected
> scope and lifetimes of these variables. If two different sessions
> change the values, what's supposed to happen?

Right, I am confused whether these are session or schema-local
variables.  What does Oracle support?  Looking at this:
http://thinkoracle.blogspot.com/2005/10/oracle-packages.html

it seems varaiable are per-session.

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