On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 16:55:33 +0000, Jake Stride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway to declare a constant that you can then use within a > postgresql 'session', i am connecting from a PHP based application and > trying to integrate another. > > What I want to be able to do is setup a rule on another table so that > whenever a query is run on the table it appends another value to the query. > > i.e i want to be able to do: > > 'SET someconstant an_id=1;' > > Then with a rule, running: > > SELECT * FROM a_table > > would become: > > SELECT * FROM a_table WHERE id=a_id > > is this possible?
At the worst you should be able to use a table with a row for each session that includes the value to be used for each session. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org