On 11/19/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

"Rajesh Kumar Mallah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In our webapps, we use the same username to connect to the database
> for all kind of updates. Hence we are not able to makeout whoo modified
> what . However at application level we have different "userid" for
different
> users of the system. we want to somehow pass this "userid"  to the
databasee
> server  and accesss it from the triggers that implement the audit
functions.

Perhaps it would be better to make your "userid" be the actual database
user?  But anyway, the custom GUC variable facility might serve your


Hi,

wouldnt' it affect the connection pooling , i am using DBI::Cache and
mod_perl ?

needs.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/runtime-config-custom.html



i dont think i understand the usage properly,

i did the below postgresql.conf
custom_variable_classes = 'general'             # list of custom variable
class names
general.employee = ''

am i supposed to see the variable general.employee when i do "show all " ?
i did not see it in fact!

my question is how can i set it and read it

regds
Mallah.


                       regards, tom lane

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