Paramveer(dot)Singh(at)trilogy(dot)com writes:
> Oracle has package level variables which are not mappable to any postgres 
> equivalent.
> could we have something like schema scope variables which could be 
> directly referred from let's say plpgsql functions?
> Can someone give me some pointers on how to go about implementing this?
It seems more appropriate to me to store your values in a table
(variable name and value).  I don't see any strong need for a
system-level facility for this.
			regards, tom lane