> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> >> This is really an unfortunate case where someone should have read the SQL
> >> standard before putting in a feature. The SQL keyword is TEMPORARY, and
> >> TEMP is really a popular name for a dummy table.
>
> > So why not yank TEMP and require TEMPORARY?
>
> Probably we ought to stop to ask why TEMP is in there to begin with;
> perhaps for compatibility with some other RDBMS?
It was me. Informix uses it.
>
> If not, I'd vote for pulling it out. That's a heck of a poor word to
> reserve.
I am afraid of lots of user complaints, even if we had not already used
TEMP.
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