On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:26:21PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On 11/17/05, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> >
> > The following bug has been logged online:
> >
> > Bug reference: 2051
> > Logged by: David Fetter
> > Email address: david@fetter.org
> > PostgreSQL version: 8.0x
> > Operating system: Linux
> > Description: CREATE TEMP TABLE AS SELECT doesn't play nice with ON
> > COMMIT DROP
> > Details:
> >
> > CREATE TEMP TABLE foo
> > AS SELECT a,b,c
> > FROM bar
> > ON COMMIT DROP;
> >
> > causes a syntax error. So does
> >
> > CREATE TEMP TABLE foo
> > ON COMMIT DROP
> > AS SELECT a,b,c
> > FROM bar
> > ;
>
> That is because there isn't an ON COMMIT clause for CREATE TABLE AS
>
> see compatibility section in:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-createtableas.html
This is still a bug, or at least a big gotcha.
Cheers,
D
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