2012/4/20 Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> As you can see, the third time I get a NOTICE message I don't get the >>> first two times. >>> Everything works fine but this strange thing... > >> There's a typo (extra create temporary view), Sorry, > > Hm, yeah, the first time would throw an error because pg_temp doesn't > resolve, so if you're using DROP IF EXISTS there would be a visible > difference in behavior between the two cases. > > I wonder if DROP IF EXISTS should consider non-existence of the > specified schema (if any) as being a "not exists" case, and not throw > an error for it. This isn't specific to the temp schema at all IMO. > > regards, tom lane The weirdness is that it doesn't produce any notice the first two times. At the third invocation I see the notice coming out. The test has been run on an empty database and a fresh new connection. You can try the code yourself. (I'm running 9.1.3 on Ubuntu Linux) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general