> > Hmm. Further perusal leads me to believe that this override is a
> > standards extension, as the clause about the tablename being unique in
> > the current namespace does not have an exception for temporary tables.
> > Nothing wrong with that, just making it clear. What's the use/case for
> > this feature? Does it come from some other DMBS?
>
> I am quite surprised people don't like that feature, or at least one
> person doesn't. If someone else creates a table, it should not prevent
> me from creating a temporary table of the same name.
>
> I know Informix doesn't implement it that way, and they complained
Sorry, I should have said "One of my users complained..."
> because a program started not working. Research showed that someone had
> created a real table with the same name as the temp table.
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