hi!
I apologize for mailing on the hackers list but I posted on the general 
list and did not get a good answer.
I have two independent issues, but am addressing them together.

1.
Oracle has package level variables which are not mappable to any postgres 
equivalent.
could we have something like schema scope variables which could be 
directly referred from let's say plpgsql functions?
Can someone give me some pointers on how to go about imlpementing this?

.
Postgres does not support deferrable unique constraints.
we would however like to support this especially as some updates give 
non-standard behavior because of this.
for details please refer to 
hi!
I apologize for mailing on the hackers list but I posted on the general list and did not get a good answer.
I have two independent issues, but am addressing them together.

1.
Oracle has package level variables which are not mappable to any postgres equivalent.
could we have something like schema scope variables which could be directly referred from let's say plpgsql functions?
Can someone give me some pointers on how to go about imlpementing this?

.
Postgres does not support deferrable unique constraints.
we would however like to support this especially as some updates give non-standard behavior because of this.
for details please refer to
Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:56:24 +0630
Paramveer.Singh@trilogy.com
schema level variables and deferrable unique constraints