Re: create temp table .. on commit delete rows

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > David Fetter wrote:
> >>> Should something notice and raise a warning when people create a
> >>> TEMP table and have AUTOCOMMIT on?
>
> > Added to TODO:
> > o Issue a notice if CREATE TABLE ... ON COMMIT { DELETE ROWS |
> > DROP } is issued outside a multi-statement transaction
>
> That is *not* what was suggested, and it doesn't seem very useful. The
> problem really comes when one uses a temp table in autocommit mode, not
> at creation time.
>
> The problem with the original suggestion is that the backend can't do it
> because AUTOCOMMIT is a notion that exists only in the client-side code.
> And the client can't do it very well because it'd have to parse SQL
> commands, and even with that it wouldn't see CREATE TEMP TABLE commands
> issued inside functions.

Ewe. Yea, I will just remove it. We can't issue a warning easily.

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