Re: session persistent data for plperl

As Tom Lane noted, pltcl already allows this. In fact, it appears that 
plperl already allows functions to create their own session-persistent 
data, but doesn't share data between functions.

I guess there's a philosophical question: should we apply transactional 
safety to (transient) data not stored in the database? I can see both 
sides of the argument, but have no motivation myself to provide such 
transactional safety, at least not now.

cheers

andrew


Thomas Hallgren wrote:

>What about transactions? Let's say the first call was in a transaction
>that's been rolled back. Semantically, that means the call never happened.
>If you maintain the session data in a table, everything is fine of course.
>But if it's in memory the solution has some rather nasty implications to it.
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>This is one scenario where I think it would be useful if the backend
>provided some transaction callback mechanisms (discussed in this group
>earlier under topic "Transaction callback"). That would enable the
>implementation of "transaction aware session persistent data" in memory.
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>Regards,
>
>- thomas
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>"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote in message
>news:402672F4.4050905@dunslane.net...
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>>The attached tiny patch (not intended for application yet) provides a
>>space for plperl functions to create and share session persistent data,
>>which I should think would increase the utility of plperl. Essentially
>>it creates a hash called %session_globals which it then injects into the
>>safe container where plperl functions live.
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>>Comments are welcome - this is just a proof of concept. If this seems
>>good to people, I will try to use a similar mechanism to "register"
>>plperl functions so they can call each other.
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