Nice. This solves problem with clearing of session variables. Thank you
Miro
2013/2/7 Gurjeet Singh <gurj...@singh.im>
> Removing -hackers and adding -general
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> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Miroslav Šimulčík <simulcik.m...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>>> Alternately, you might be able to use a custom GUC from a rather
>>> smaller PL/PgSQL function. At transaction start, issue:
>>>
>>> set_config('myapp.trigger_time', '', 't');
>>>
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>> This is problem with using custom GUC - clearing variable at transaction
>> start. Without clearing it's not sufficient solution (see my response to
>> Pavel's mail). I don't want to do clearing from application and as far as i
>> know there is not "transaction start" trigger.
>>
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> I think you can do it by using 2 GUCs.
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> Put this at the beginning of your trigger:
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> if current_setting(my_var.now) != now() then
> -- We're executing this code for the first time in this transaction
> set_config(my_var.now, now())
> set_config(my_var.my_ts, clock_timestamp)
> end;
> -- Go on happily use my_var.my_ts to stamp your data.
>
> HTH,
> --
> Gurjeet Singh
>
> http://gurjeet.singh.im/
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