Re: pl/pgsql and global variables

How much global? global for transaction, session(connection), whole
database... Sometime good solution store "global variable" in table.

John Lim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are trying to select which procedural language to use with postgresql. We
> are familiar with oracle and PL/SQL and were pleased with the close match
> with PL/pgSQL.
>
> However we need access to global variables in PL/pgSQL. I cannot find any
> mention of this in the docs. A search on google was not helpful as it just
> pointed back at the docs. Is this feature available, or do we have to use
> some of the other available languages such as PL/TCL or PL/Python?
>
> Also any advice on the stability of any of the PL/languages would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks again for reading and answering this.
>
> John Lim
>
>

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Olleg Samojlov