Re: why no create variable - Mailing list pgsql-general

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font-size:10pt;"><div>createtable works but causes a lot of selects through out the program to get various settings
whenusing CREATE Variable and have it global means that you can set these values once when doing your init routine and
nothave to continuously go back to the table in every stored procedure to get the same data over and over.  In my case
Ialmost 99% of the time set these values from table values and then use them in read only mode.  These are things that
arenormally static.  I also have a group of "flags" that get initialized to 0 and can get set to 1 to help determine
actionsto take in a stored procedure.</div><div><br /></div><div>Getting the information from a table works.  I now
havea sessionsettings table, but I'm making way to many calls to it because there is no global pool of variable.  Not
IMOan efficient use of a table.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Michael Gould</div><div>Intermodal Software Solutions,
LLC</div><div>904-226-0978</div><div><br/><br /></div><blockquote id="replyBlockquote" style="border-left: 2px solid
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id="wmQuoteWrapper">-------- Original Message --------<br /> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] why no create variable<br /> From:
JasenBetts <<a href="mailto:jasen@xnet.co.nz">jasen@xnet.co.nz</a>><br /> Date: Sat, March 17, 2012 9:57 pm<br />
To:<a href="mailto:pgsql-general@postgresql.org">pgsql-general@postgresql.org</a><br /><br /> On 2012-03-08, <<a
href="mailto:mgould@isstrucksoftware.net">mgould@isstrucksoftware.net</a>><<a
href="mailto:mgould@isstrucksoftware.net">mgould@isstrucksoftware.net</a>>wrote:<br /> > There seems to be CREATE
everythingin Postgres but it would be really<br /> > nice to have a CREATE VARIABLE which would allow us to create
global<br/> > variables. I know there are other techniques but this would be the<br /> > easiest when doing a
initroutine when a user logs in to the<br /> > application.<br /><br /> create a table.<br /><br /> -- <br /> ⚂⚃
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