A.M. wrote:
Indeed... I looked through the official TODO list and was unable to
find an entry for global temporary tables- such a thing would be ideal
for any transient data such as web sessions or materialized views. Is
there any reason why global temp tables shouldn't be implemented?
(And, no, I'm not simply referring to "in-memory" tables- they can
simply be handled with a ram disk.)
Not exactly what you're looking for and a simple API, but the
performance is very nice and has a lot of potential.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgmemcache/
Implementing a cleaner more transparent sql wrapper would be even nicer.
http://tangent.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=478&node_id=506
Just sharing/tossing some ideas around..
C.