On 1/17/07, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
IIRC, you can do it using CREATE TEMP TABLE t1 ON COMMIT DROP AS query
but i think this new in 8.2
why not extending this to SELECT INTO TEMP?
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