Lane Van Ingen wrote:
(2) Set up user variables in memory that are persistent across all sessions, for as long as the database is up and running ?
You could probably write "C" functions (or possibly Perl) to store data in shared memory. Of course you'd have to deal with concurrency issues yourself.
Storing the values in a table and having cached access to them during the session is probably your best bet.
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