On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes: > I'm wondering if there is anything technical preventing someone from making:
> DROP TEMP TABLE tablename;
There is no great need for that because you can get the semantics you're asking for with "DROP TABLE pg_temp.tablename".
Furthermore, as a matter of good database management ideally the role creating and dropping temporary tables is different from the role that retains ownership of permanent tables - so that even if the wrong table was selected object permissions would prevent its being dropped.
I don't think I'd -1 a patch that attempted to provide some incremental improvement here but I just don't see one being written or getting enough support to go through. And that doesn't bother me - even if I was in a position to do so I likely wouldn't write one at this point.
