Re: what is difference between LOCAL and GLOBAL TEMP TABLES in PostgreSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: what is difference between LOCAL and GLOBAL TEMP TABLES in PostgreSQL
Date: 2007-07-02 16:43:21
Message-ID: 19728.1183394601@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> I've often thought that having global temp tables would be a really
> good idea, since it would drastically reduce the need to vacuum
> catalog tables,

I rather doubt that. The most likely implementation would involve
cloning a "template" entry into pg_class.

regards, tom lane

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