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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition
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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition

by Christopher Travers, Andrey Volkov
January 2019
Beginner
556 pages
14h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Function configuration related parameters

PostgreSQL can be configured per session, as well as within a function scope. This is quite useful in particular cases, when we want to override the session settings in the function. The settings parameters can be used to determine resources (such as the amount of memory required to perform an operation such as work_mem), or they can be used to determine execution behavior, such as disabling a sequential scan or nested loop joins. Only parameters that have the context of the user can be used (referring to the settings parameters that can be assigned to the user session).

The SET clause causes the specified setting parameter to be set with a specified value when the function is entered; the same setting ...

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