Tom Lane wrote:
> ... We might want to do that someday --- in particular,
> if we ever try to extend the plan inval mechanism to react to
> redefinitions of non-table objects, we'd likely need some such thing
> anyway.  I'm disinclined to try to do it for 8.3 though.  The use-case
> for temp sequences seems a bit narrow and there are several workarounds
> (see followups to bug report), so I'm feeling this is a
> fix-some-other-day kind of issue.

Agreed. I was a bit worried about this kind of usage:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testfunc(val int) RETURNS int AS $$
DECLARE
BEGIN
  CREATE TEMPORARY SEQUENCE tempseq;
  CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE inttable (key integer DEFAULT
nextval('tempseq'), data text);
  INSERT INTO inttable (data) VALUES ('foo');
  DROP TABLE inttable;
  DROP SEQUENCE tempseq;
  return 1;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

but that seems to work, because creating/dropping the temp table
triggers the plan invalidation.

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  Heikki Linnakangas
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