Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:10:47 +0800
From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: proposal: schema variables
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 11:01:41AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > pá 17. 1. 2025 v 16:35 odesílatel Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> napsal:
> > 
> >     So this feature would be like global GUC variables, with permission
> >     control?
> > 
> > + types and domain type check - holds data in binary form - there are not
> > conversions binary, text
> > + it is declared - so less space for misuse is there. Custom GUC are absolutely
> > tolerant
> > + it is a fully database object, only owner can alter it,  and event triggers
> > are supported, sinval
> > + possibility to set mutability, default value
> 
> Okay, good summary.  Now, can people give feedback that they would want
> this committed to PostgreSQL?

I unsurprisingly would really like to see it committed, for all the reasons
Pavel mentioned.  It would have helped me on various projects many times.