2008/11/25 Csaba Együd <csegyud@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I'm administering a Pg8.3 database with PgAdmin3.
>
> The users need views "pre" filtered on a session based vairable wich is
> stored in a temporary table. Immediately after logging into the database the
> client software creates a temporary table and stores an idin that. The users
> query views when they want to see the contents of a filtered table and
> modify the tables directly - which tables have BEFORE UPDATE/DELETE/INSERT
> trigers to check the existence of the Temp table and to force filter field
> values to be defaulted to the temporary table field. I hope it is clear...
> :)
>
> When I log in with PgAdmin I have to create the temp table manually. It's
> ok, and if I use the query tool i cansee query the views after creating the
> temp table. But if I want to see the contents of a view in table view (View
> Data-View all rows), the views are empty indicating that it lacks of the
> temporary table. When I view directly the table (not the view) and try to
> edit a field the trigger refuses it because of the lack of temp table.
I'm guessing that you're creating tables like:
create temporary table blah blah blah
and can't see them from other connections? That's normal. If you
want to be able to see tables from multiple sessions you need to
create regular tables.