Thread: RE: [HACKERS] Novice Question

RE: [HACKERS] Novice Question

From
"Jackson, DeJuan"
Date:
OK, this is a complete novice question.
Do we or do we not have temp tables (and/or unnamed tables)? 
If we don't why not?
I can see them making quite a few places of current development a lot
easier and flexible.  I do realize TANSTAAFL, but as I grok it could be
used for multiple tuple return from functions, the
deferrable-constraints problems, implementing the SQL92 join syntax, and
subselects in from clauses and select lists.

Just more of those ideas,-DEJ


Re: [HACKERS] Novice Question

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
> OK, this is a complete novice question.
> Do we or do we not have temp tables (and/or unnamed tables)? 
> If we don't why not?
> I can see them making quite a few places of current development a lot
> easier and flexible.  I do realize TANSTAAFL, but as I grok it could be
> used for multiple tuple return from functions, the
> deferrable-constraints problems, implementing the SQL92 join syntax, and
> subselects in from clauses and select lists.

It is on the TODO list, and is not a hard job at all.

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