Re: proposal: new contrib module - session variables

2008/6/9 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
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> Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> Hello all,
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>> session variables are missing feature long time. Currently nobody
>> works on package or SQL/PSM module implementation so there is some
>> gap.Currently best know solution are session variables based on plper
>> hash tables or Joe Conway's C implementation.
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>> I propose include Joe's code into contrib set
>> http://www.joeconway.com/sessfunc.tar.gz It's important mainly for
>> window's users, that has problems with own compilation.
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>> Objections?
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> The URL fails, so I can't comment on Joe's work. But I seriously doubt that
> any contrib module is really the right way to go about doing session
> variables. If we're going to have them then they need to be properly
> builtin, and available to all PLs.
>

probably Joe's server is out currently :(.

Joe's implementation was simply - hash table stored in session context.

Pavel


> cheers
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> andrew
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