Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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