Re: 'Session local' variables

On 7/2/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Nick Johnson" <arachnid@notdot.net> writes:
> > I want to write a contrib module that exports a couple of functions
> > that PLs (that don't natively support this) can use to set/get
> > session-local variables.
>
> Um, why do you need to do anything?  Don't current_setting() and
> set_config() cover this?

I thought those were supposed to be reserved for postgres's
configuration options?

-Nick Johnson