On 3/13/08, Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > "Kynn Jones" <kynnjo@gmail.com> writes:
> > > If one can set up this insert operation so that it happens automatically
> > > whenever a new connection is made, I'd like to learn how it's done.
> >
> > For manual psql sessions, you can put some setup commands in ~/.psqlrc.
> > In any other context I'm afraid you're stuck with modifying your client
> > application code.
> >
> > An ON CONNECT trigger enforced by the database seems a bit scary to me.
> > If it's broken, how you gonna get into the DB to fix it?
>
>
> Well, I would benefit from ON CONNECT trigger, I must admit.
>
> An application which uses tsearch2 ('SELECT set_curdict() / set_curcfg()' being
> called upon session start). That is fine and that works.
>
> Now, using statement pooling solution like pgbouncer is great benefit for this
> specific application. There is one little problem however -- one can never be
> sure when session is started. As a countermeasure there is a need to call
> set_curdict() in every transaction (which is very fast), but one needs
> to remember
> to call that set_curdict() every time.
>
> ON CONNECT trigger would solve that neatly!
Hm. It seems to make more sense to implement connect-time
hook directly in pgbouncer.
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marko