On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:40, you wrote: > No problem to use a temp table in a trigger (which is local to the > session), I do so myself. Still, session variables would be nice, making > coding a little bit more comfortable.
(it would be very good if you implement session variables in PostgreSQL.) The first problem using temp table is: CREATE TABLE locals (name text, value text); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_locals_access() RETURNS text AS ' DECLARE i text; BEGIN SELECT value INTO i FROM locals WHERE name=''n1'' RETURN i; END; ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; SELECT test_locals_access() ; column ------------- <null> CREATE TEMP TABLE locals (name text, value text); INSERT INTO locals VALUES ('n1','xxx'); SELECT test_locals_access() ; column ------------- <null> <=== the Function seing global table SELECT value FROM locals WHERE name='n1'; value --------- xxx the second problem may be resolved with your advise. look: i want to log operations on the data in some tables. so i declared sufficient triggers which write to the log-table. and now i want to mark each log-record with the "operator_id" (e.g. to log who made an update) what possible ways are there ? if i use temp table to inform the triggers about "operator_id" then i have problems in manual updates of these tables (temp table in my session needed too) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])