On Feb 3, 2008 1:39 AM, Sim Zacks <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on i386-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> (GCC) 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)"
>
> I am creating a temporary sequence in a function and it seems like it is not
> going away after the function finishes.
> The front end is in MS Access 2000 and I have a single connection. When I call
> the function once it works, when I call it a second time, it gives me an error
> that the sequence already exists. When I restart the application, I can call the
> function again.
>
create, and use the sequence through EXECUTE
EXECUTE 'create temp sequence seq1';
EXECUTE 'select nextval(' || quote_literal('seq') || ') ';
the same apply for all kind of temp objects, in 8.3 this no longer
will be an issue
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