2017-11-01 6:07 GMT+01:00 Serge Rielau <se...@rielau.com>: > "Although the syntax of CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE resembles that of the SQL > standard, the effect is not the same. In the standard, temporary tables are > defined just once and automatically exist (starting with empty contents) in > every session that needs them. PostgreSQL instead requires each session > to issue its own CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE command for each temporary table > to be used. This allows different sessions to use the same temporary table > name for different purposes, whereas the standard's approach constrains all > instances of a given temporary table name to have the same table structure.” > Yeah, that’s a DECLAREd table in my book. No wonder we didn’t link up. >
This is known discussion about local / global temp tables in PostgresSQL. And ToDo point: implementation of global temp tables in Postgres. This temporary behave is marginal part of proposal - so I can to remove it from proposal - and later open discussion about CREATE TEMPORARY VARIABLE versus DECLARE VARIABLE Regards Pavel Serge >
