> pavel.steh...@gmail.com wrote: > >> b...@yugabyte.com wrote: >> >> I’m still hoping that I might get some pointers to whitepapers or blog posts >> that expand on those bullets that I quoted from the PG doc: «Instead of >> packages, use schemas to organize your functions into groups.» and «Since >> there are no packages, there are no package-level variables either. This is >> somewhat annoying. You can keep per-session state in temporary tables >> instead.» > > I fixed a patch https://commitfest.postgresql.org/36/1608/ so you can check > it. > > Using temporary tables instead of session variables is not too practical. > There are more alternative ways - a) one extension, b) using global variables > from Perl, c) using global configuration variables. The @c is most common > today > > http://okbob.blogspot.com/2021/06/current_setting
Do you have a plain English account of what your patch will bring for the application programmer? Your current_setting blog post shows me that you use this: pts := current_setting('tps.ts', true)::timestamp with time zone; Is that your point? I so, then thanks. Yes, I’ve used this technique myself.