On Aug 8, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Carl R. Brune wrote:

I recently tried to do something like the following

BEGIN READONLY;
...
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ABC AS SELECT ...
...
COMMIT;

and it failed because CREATE is not allowed within a read-only
transaction. The select is something long and complicated (pieced
together with php) and I'm just trying to be careful. What other alternatives are there for accomplishing this? Preferably
simple ones...


How about:

BEGIN;
...
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE ABC AS SELECT ...
...
ROLLBACK;



John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL


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