Re: [HACKERS] CREATE TEMP TABLE .... ON COMMIT

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] CREATE TEMP TABLE .... ON COMMIT
Date: 2002-08-14 05:23:30
Message-ID: 200208140523.g7E5NUe01345@candle.pha.pa.us
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Gavin, was this addressed?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > As for your question (and, perhaps, SQL99) I don't seen how it makes any
> > sense to specify ON COMMIT outside of a transaction block.
>
> Surely it does.
>
> CREATE TEMP TABLE foo(...) ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS;
>
> BEGIN;
> insert some rows in foo;
> process rows in foo;
> COMMIT; -- foo is now empty again
>
> BEGIN;
> insert some rows in foo;
> process rows in foo;
> COMMIT; -- foo is now empty again
>
> repeat until application quit...
>
> What am I missing?
>
> regards, tom lane
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