Re: SELECT INTO TEMPORARY problem

On 1/17/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> David Goodenough <david(dot)goodenough(at)btconnect(dot)com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> No, the default is to last until end of session.
>
> There's an ON COMMIT DROP option in the CREATE TEMP TABLE syntax,
> but I don't think it's possible to stick it into an INTO TEMP clause.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

IIRC, you can do it using CREATE TEMP TABLE t1 ON COMMIT DROP AS query
but i think this new in 8.2

why not extending this to SELECT INTO TEMP?

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