Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
>> CREATE GLOBAL TEMP TABLE blah INHERITS myhugetable;
> I don't think you can have your temp table inherit from a real table.
Bear in mind also that this notion of a GLOBAL TEMP table has less than
nothing to do with what the standard says a GLOBAL TEMP table is. You
can't argue for the idea by claiming it increases our standards
compliance, because it actually is moving even further away. The spec
says that a temp table is a table that exists but starts empty in every
session, ie, data inserted by one session is not visible to any other
session. The GLOBAL/LOCAL choice does not affect this, it actually just
governs visibility of the table within different modules (a concept we
don't have at all).
An ALTER TABLE SET LOGGED/UNLOGGED switch might have some merit, but
please don't muddy the waters by confusing this with temp-table status.
regards, tom lane
