On Friday 19 September 2003 16:18, Tom Lane wrote: > > Now that MySQL AB has put a stake through the heart of that connection > by GPL'ing their client libraries, we might start to get a little better > traction with PHP users... Speaking as a PG+PHP user, the new plphp procedural language should be very useful. I fully intend to be writing a code generator that can produce validation functions to be run in PG and in the app. About time I stopped writing two sets of validation code. I'll stick it on gborg if no-one gets there before me. One thing I think would be useful is another pseudo-var in PG, something like APP_SESSION_VAR which can be set and then used in PG queries. This would make it much easier to write queries like: CREATE VIEW my_project_list AS SELECT * FROM project_list WHERE owner=APP_SESSION_VAR At the moment you can do this sort of thing easily enough for straightforward queries, but views/function bodies are a PITA. Tom - if I offered to produce a patch for something like this - either a var or a function pair (get_app_session_var(), set_app_session_var(varchar)) would it be likely to be accepted? I've probably got some free time towards the end of the year. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
