Re: [HACKERS] proposal: session server side variables

On 28 December 2016 at 21:19, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:

> Also, I'm not yet convinced that simple privatizable transcient/session
> variables would not be enough to fit the use case, so that for the same
> price there would be session variables for all, not only special ones with
> permissions.

Since, unlike Oracle, we don't have compiled packages or plan-caching
above the session level, there's not the same hard requirement for the
variable definition to be persistent.

So... maybe? The main question then becomes how you integrate access control.

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