On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 17:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> > So it would seem that we need a way of handling temp tables that doesn't
>> > rely on catalog entries at all.
>>
>> That's a complete non-starter; I need go no farther than to point out
>> that it would break clients that expect to see their temp tables
>> reflected in pg_class and so forth.
>
> What does the SQL Standard say about the Information Schema I wonder/
Many apps were written long before we had one. Not too mention that it
doesn't provide anything like all the info that PostgreSQL-specific
tool (though not necessarily user apps) would likely need.
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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
