> > > TEMPORARY is SQL92 standard, TEMP is not. Nuff said...
> > OK, but TEMPORARY doesn't work on 6.5.*, right?
>
> Sure it does (at least as far as I can tell. The test/locale stuff has
> screwed up CVS update, so I have to do a clean checkout of at least
> that directory to get my tree back in shape :(
>
> And, to beat a dead horse, I'm *still* not sure why we are carrying
> along the "TEMP" variant, losing the use of that name for other
> things.
Well, Tom Lane made it so we allow TEMP as an indentifier. I now
remember that the issue with 7.0 was that everyone beat up on me because
I used TEMP instead of the SQL92-standard TEMPORARY when implementing
temporary tables. See, it works now:
test=> create table x ( temp char(2));CREATE
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