Re: GD global data array capabilities in pltcl

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
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>>so I would say it's not accessable from other functions within the same
>>backend. I doubt very much that this data is database wide I can only see it
>>being backend specific.
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>It's definitely backend-local. I imagine you could access another
>procedure's GD if you could determine its name (it's built from the
>pg_proc OID, I think). However, if you want to share global data across
>pltcl functions in the same backend session, you shouldn't bother with
>GD at all: just create named global Tcl variables. All pltcl functions
>in a backend run in the same interpreter, so they can trivially access
>global variables.
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OK. Got that! Thanks a lot!

teo