Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1@burntmail.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Another possibility, if you only need to store and retrieve values
>> and not do anything especially interesting with them, is to abuse
>> the "custom GUC variable" facility.
> I've had several occasions when a user-defined variable would have come
> in handy. What is the scope of user_vars as you've defined them above?
They'd act like any other GUC variable. The scope of a SET would be the
current connection, but there are other ways to set them with larger scope.
regards, tom lane