Re: Contrib -- PostgreSQL shared variables

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On Wednesday 25 August 2004 02:15 pm, pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> This is a first pass on a simple shared memory variable system for
> PostgreSQL. I would appriciate anyone interested in this functionality to
> rip it apart.
>
> It basically adds this functionality:
>
> SetShared('name', value);
> GetSharedInt('name');
> SetSharedText('name);
> RemovedShared('name');
>
> I also added two extra functions that are sort of a kludge, but could be
> very helpful.
>
> AddSharedInt('name', value);
> SubSharedInt('name', value);
>
> These add or subtect the 'value' from the variable and return the result.

I don't see how this is different from "CREATE TABLE shared_variables (name
VARCHAR PRIMARY KEY, value VARCHAR)" and
inserting/updating/deleting/selecting from that. Perhaps these are
per-session shared variables? IN which case, what is the utility if sharing
them across shared memory?

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Jonathan Gardner
jgardner@jonathangardner.net
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