2009/3/17 Peter <peter(at)greatnowhere(dot)com>
>
> So is there a way to associate user variable with Postgres connection that
> can be picked up by SQL code running in that connection? Right now I can
> only think of PlPerl function that caches user id in a global variable, but
> am not sure about potential pitfalls of such setup...
>
You could use temporary table.
E.g. create temporary table localdata(name, value) as select values('user',
'john');
This will be connection-scope.