Re: Temp Tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Temp Tables
Date
Msg-id 11697.1015523805@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Temp Tables  (mdb002@yahoo.com (mdb))
List pgsql-general
mdb002@yahoo.com (mdb) writes:
> I am running a client server app and am using temp tables to do some
> data manipulation.  However, Postgresql seems to prevent multiple temp
> tables from being created with the same name.  The temp tables are
> created by seperate connections to the database, but this does not
> seem to matter.

Surely not.

In window 1:
regression=# create temp table foo (f1 int);
CREATE
regression=#

In window 2:
regression=# create temp table foo (f1 float, f2 float);
CREATE
regression=#

So I don't see a problem.  Would you give us an example of exactly what
you are doing?

            regards, tom lane

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: Temp Tables
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Migration problem - serial fields