Re: Does a call to a language handler provide a context/session, and somewhere to keep session data?

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Does a call to a language handler provide a context/session, and somewhere to keep session data?
Date: 2016-03-07 09:41:26
Message-ID: 56DD4CC6.3030109@hogranch.com
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On 3/7/2016 1:34 AM, david(at)andl(dot)org wrote:
>
> Yes, I was aware of GD and SD. My question is about what facilities
> Postgres provides for implementing such a thing. Where is the proper
> place for the root of the SD/GD? What does an _implementation_ use to
> determine that two calls belong to the same session?
>

the process ID is unique for each active session. of course, the OS
can recycle a PID when a process/connection terminates

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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