David Goodenough <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In one of the requests I do a SELECT ... INTO TEMPORARY t1 ..., which > works just fine when I first use it, but from then on it objects saying > that t1 already exists. When I read the documentation (8.1 as that is > what I am using) I thought I understood that the table would disappear > at the end of the transaction. No, the default is to last until end of session. There's an ON COMMIT DROP option in the CREATE TEMP TABLE syntax, but I don't think it's possible to stick it into an INTO TEMP clause. regards, tom lane