Re: SELECT INTO TEMPORARY problem

From: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SELECT INTO TEMPORARY problem
Date: 2007-01-17 17:16:53
Message-ID: 20070117171652.GA17013@a-kretschmer.de
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am Wed, dem 17.01.2007, um 16:04:10 +0000 mailte David Goodenough folgendes:
> I have a servlet which gets its data through a DataSource (Tomcat 5.5)
> and starts each request as a new SQL transaction and either commits
> the transaction or rolls it back at the end of each request.
>
> In one of the requests I do a SELECT ... INTO TEMPORARY t1 ..., which
> works just fine when I first use it, but from then on it objects saying
> that t1 already exists. When I read the documentation (8.1 as that is
> what I am using) I thought I understood that the table would disappear
> at the end of the transaction. Other than deleting it, is there something
> else I need to do or have I missunderstood that into temporary does?

known problem, FAQ. Use EXECUTE for your DDL-Statements.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item4.19

Andreas
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