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Re: proposal: schema variables

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

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From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, DUVAL REMI <REMI.DUVAL@cheops.fr>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-11-16T14:34:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance

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  1. Move WAL sequence code into its own file

  2. Add ExplainState argument to pg_plan_query() and planner().

  3. Don't include access/htup_details.h in executor/tuptable.h

  4. Refactor to avoid code duplication in transformPLAssignStmt.

  5. Avoid including commands/dbcommands.h in so many places

  6. Restrict psql meta-commands in plain-text dumps.

  7. Split func.sgml into more manageable pieces

  8. Fix squashing algorithm for query texts

  9. EXPLAIN: Always use two fractional digits for row counts.

  10. Preliminary refactoring of plpgsql expression construction.

  11. plpgsql: pure parser and reentrant scanner

  12. Add some sanity checks in executor for query ID reporting

  13. Fix misleading error message context

  14. Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.

Hi


> As a side note, I've recently caught myself thinking "it would be cool to
> have
> session variables here". The use case was preparing a policy for RLS,
> based on
> some session-level data set by an application. This session-level data is
> of a
> composite data type, so simple current_setting is cumbersome to use, and a
> temporary table will be dropped at the end, taking the policy with it due
> to
> the recorded dependency between them. Thus a session variable of some
> composite
> type sounds like a good fit.
>

yes, RLS support is one mentioned use case, and strong reason the access
rights are implemented there.

Regards

Pavel