Re: are there static variables in pgsql?

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 06:37:35PM -0400, Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
> On Saturday 10 June 2006 06:31 pm, "Yavuz Kavus" <yavuzkavus@gmail.com> thus
> communicated:
> --> i am writing a recursive procedure in pl/pgsql.
> --> i need to check whether a condition is true in any step of recursive
>  calls. -->
> --> if i get a true response in one call, i wont make other recursive calls
> --> anymore, because i get what i need.
> --> if no one gives me a true response, then uppest procedure will return
>  false --> as a result.
> -->
> --> i think i may achieve this with a static variable(shared among all
>  calls). -->
> --> is it possible?
> -->
> --> or another solution?
> -->
> --> thanks a lot for any help.
> -->
> I don't know of any static variable capability; however, I use various utility
> tables to accomplish this type of task. You can insert records into a table
> like this while inside a transaction and the current process will be the only
> process that can see it. When you are through with it, delete the record, all
> within the same transaction, and your purpose will be served.

If you use a temp table for that, you can have it truncate on
commit/rollback.
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