Re: can I define own variables? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Guy Rouillier
Subject Re: can I define own variables?
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Msg-id 47146619.1010709@burntmail.com
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In response to Re: can I define own variables?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: can I define own variables?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1@burntmail.com> writes:
>> I set that up, and using the SHOW command returns the set value.  I
>> searched the archives and I couldn't identify a way to retrieve these
>> values in a trigger function.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-SET-TABLE
>

Thank you, Tom.  Since "select current_setting('uservars.user_name')"
and "SHOW uservars.user_name" are both PostgreSQL extensions, why not
allow them to be used interchangeably?  In short, why isn't the
following legal in a PL/pgsql procedure:

NEW.user_name := (SHOW uservars.user_name);

--
Guy Rouillier

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