On 11/16/21 12:23, DAVID ROTH wrote:
> One of the nice things about Oracle packages is that the code is loaded and global values are set and stored only
onceper session. This is very useful for values that are used repeatedly.
>
> What is the best way of emulating this behavior in Postgresql?
>
>
You can create a temporary table with "ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS", which
is visible in a session and cannot cross the session boundary. Values
in the table can be queried throughout the session. That is a pretty
good approximation of the session variables in Oracle.
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