Re: Is temporary functions feature official/supported? Found some issues with it.

Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 05:18:08PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm. I can reproduce this if I start in a virgin database, but not
>> otherwise. I think the problem is that the prepared transaction has
>> created the pg_temp_NN schema for its session, and therefore there
>> is an uncommitted pg_namespace entry for that schema name, and the
>> second session is also trying to create that schema (because it has
>> the same backend ID) so it blocks waiting to see if that index
>> entry commits.

> That should not be allowed to commit directly. I think that we should
> just add a new value for MyXactFlags which tracks the transaction
> where the temporary namespace has been created, and generate an error
> if trying to use 2PC in this case. A separate flag looks necessary to
> me so as we don't bump on "cannot PREPARE a transaction that has
> operated on temporary tables" in this case.

Hm, I had forgotten that we had such an error message. Really that
restriction needs to apply to any object in the temp namespace, not only
tables.

regards, tom lane