On 12/5/2004 12:48 PM, Jake Stride wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
>>On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 16:55:33 +0000,
>> Jake Stride <nsuk@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is there anyway to declare a constant that you can then use within a
>>>postgresql 'session', i am connecting from a PHP based application and
>>>trying to integrate another.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>At the worst you should be able to use a table with a row for each session
>>that includes the value to be used for each session.
>>
>>
> Would this be a postgresql session? If so how do I go about accessing it
> from a query/setting the value of it? I have looked at set authorization
> but I don't think this is where I should be looking!
PostgreSQL does not have userland session variables. You would have to
write some custom set/get functions in a procedural language that is
capable of holding global data across function calls (like PL/Tcl).
Jan
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