| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: proposal for PL packages for 8.3. |
| Date: | 2006-08-09 14:55:30 |
| Message-ID: | 200608091455.k79EtUf12952@momjian.us |
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:38:22AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > There are three separate issues we seem to be talking about.
> >
> > 1. Namespaces - visibility or otherwise of objects
> > 2. Procedural state - something that looks like a shared variable
> > 3. Packaging - installation/dependency handling
>
> Well, it would be nice to have some clarification about the expected
> scope and lifetimes of these variables. If two different sessions
> change the values, what's supposed to happen?
Right, I am confused whether these are session or schema-local
variables. What does Oracle support? Looking at this:
http://thinkoracle.blogspot.com/2005/10/oracle-packages.html
it seems varaiable are per-session.
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Bruce Momjian bruce(at)momjian(dot)us
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