Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de> writes:
> I have the patch almost ready in the described form, if there is any chance
> it will make it into 8.2 I will clean it up and post it ASAP but Peter wrote
> me that chances are close to zero and so I stopped working on it for now.
If you'd mentioned it a bit sooner I would have encouraged you to get
it done. But given your description it sounds a bit too
hairy/potentially-destabilizing to be dropping in the day before beta.
(I certainly hadn't thought about custom vars at all :-()
Let's plan it for 8.3 instead.
regards, tom lane