| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Mark Wilson <mark(at)mediasculpt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: database session variables |
| Date: | 2002-10-01 23:49:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20021001234939.GA2408@svana.org |
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:27:10AM +1200, Mark Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on a system architecture that requires accessing session
> variables specific to the database connection. This is useful because you
> can emulate many users (with different privileges) with a single database
> logon. Currently it seems like only user, current_user and session_user
> are supported.
Well, you can get the process ID of the backend process. This would be
different for every connection.
What other database allow you to store session specific variables?
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
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