Re: permanent setting of config variables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joao Miguel Ferreira
Subject Re: permanent setting of config variables
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Msg-id CALyyT7R95dACKRPMcZWCSBwWPB19S6d0oNXx+zyTOAoyqLUTUQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: permanent setting of config variables  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
List pgsql-general
Hi,

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 4:05 PM Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
On 2/18/21 4:09 AM, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote:
> I have a few PL/pgSQL functions that use queires like "SHOW company.product INTO
> _product_name" and "SHOW company.cluster INTO _cluster_number".
>
> But these are failing because I don't know how to set those values on a
> permanent basis, or maybe on startup would also be ok.
>
> I did read the "ALTER DATABASE " and the "set_config(...)" documentation and I
> experimented a bit with that but without succes.
>
> So my question would be: how to permanently set user specific config values that
> would become accessible to the "SHOW ...." SQL comand.

Perhaps I don't understand your issue, but this works for me:

8<---------------
nmx=# alter database nmx set a.b = 'c';
ALTER DATABASE

nmx=# \q


psql nmx
psql (12.5)
Type "help" for help.

nmx=# show a.b;
 a.b
-----
 c
(1 row)


I have just tried your example and it worked just fine.

I guess I was doing something wrong on my previous attempts.

And also, from your example, it also means that this can be achieved by the client application, which is also cool, and better for me than the server side approach

Thank you for the clear example
Joao
 
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test() RETURNS text AS $$
DECLARE
 pn text;
BEGIN
 SHOW a.b INTO pn;
 RETURN pn;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

nmx=# SELECT test();
 test
------
 c
(1 row)

nmx=# \q


psql nmx
psql (12.5)
Type "help" for help.

nmx=# SELECT test();
 test
------
 c
(1 row)
8<---------------

HTH,

Joe

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