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From: Wolfgang Walther <[email protected]>
To: Dmitry Dolgov <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Erik Rijkers <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Cc: DUVAL REMI <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: proposal: schema variables
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:56:53 +0100
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Dmitry Dolgov:
> This sounds to me like an argument against allowing name clashing between
> variables and tables. It makes even more sense, since session variables are in
> many ways similar to tables.

+1

My mental model of a session variable is similar to a single-row, 
optionally global temporary, table.

Is there any substantial difference that I am not aware of?

Best,

Wolfgang

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