At 6:32 -0400 5/12/02, Bill Easton wrote:
>When I try to join a temporary table to itself, I get an error message, as
>follows:
>
>     create temporary table TEMP (X int NOT NULL);
>     select * from TEMP A, TEMP B;
>
>     The select gives: ERROR 1137: Can't reopen table: 'A'
>
>It appears to work as expected without the "temporary".  Can I not join a
>temporary table to itself?

Nope.

>
>Happens on:
>     Windows 2000: 3.23.47-nt
>     Linux 7.2: 3.23.49-max-log
>Also happens on Linux with InnoDB instead of MyISAM.
>
>sql,query


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