Re: temp tables

On Apr 28, 2005, at 12:45 AM, Cima wrote:

>
> im working with php 4 and postgresql 8 and in my php script id like to
> create a temp table on my database server. how do i do this? how do i
> verify it was created?
>  
> i tried the following:
>  
> $sql = "create temp table s_info(a int, b text) on commit delete
> rows ";
>  
> pg_query($dbh,$sql);
>  
>  
> $dbh is my connection.
>  
> any help will be highly appreciated.

You can verify it was created by checking the result from pg_query and
looking at pg_last_error. The table is automatically dropped at the end
of the connection, most likely when your PHP script ends.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
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