"Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 9/2/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Seems a little verbose, but maybe we could do "SET var FROM CURRENT"
>> or "SET var FROM SESSION"?
> I'd prefer FROM SESSION then. FROM CURRENT seems unclear.
Actually, I think FROM SESSION is unclear, as it opens the question
whether the value to be applied is the session-wide setting or the
currently active one. Inside a transaction that has done SET LOCAL,
these are different things.
I think we pretty clearly want to have it take the currently active
setting, and I'd vote for FROM CURRENT as the best way of expressing
that.
regards, tom lane