Hi
> I’m still hoping that I might get some pointers to whitepapers or blog > posts that expand on those bullets that I quoted from the PG doc: «Instead > of packages, use schemas to organize your functions into groups.» and > «Since there are no packages, there are no package-level variables either. > This is somewhat annoying. You can keep per-session state in temporary > tables instead.» > I fixed a patch https://commitfest.postgresql.org/36/1608/ so you can check it. Using temporary tables instead of session variables is not too practical. There are more alternative ways - a) one extension, b) using global variables from Perl, c) using global configuration variables. The @c is most common today http://okbob.blogspot.com/2021/06/calculating-derivation-from.html Regards Pavel