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