On 9/2/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 9/1/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One problem is that we'd have to make CURRENT a reserved word to make it > >> work exactly like that. Can anyone think of a variant syntax that > >> doesn't need a new reserved word? > > > SET var FROM CURRENT SESSION > > Seems a little verbose, but maybe we could do "SET var FROM CURRENT" > or "SET var FROM SESSION"?
I'd prefer FROM SESSION then. FROM CURRENT seems unclear. > One point worth noting here is that this'd more or less automatically > apply to ALTER USER SET and ALTER DATABASE SET as well ... not sure > how much use-case there is for those, but it'd fall out ... Does not seem to be a problem. -- marko ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate