Re: [BUGS] General Bug Report: TEMP TABLES becomes permanent CATALOG TABLES

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Ricardo Coelho <rcoelho@px.com.br>, pgsql-bugs@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-07-03T15:28:52Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I think I may know the cause.  The at_exit removal of the temp tables is
> taking place in a failed transaction.  Let me test that idea tomorrow.

Take a look at the code for cleaning up the listen/notify table
(Async_UnlistenOnExit() in backend/commands/async.c).  It used to
have problems with cleaning up when the last transaction executed
by the backend had failed.  I fixed that by aborting any old transaction
and starting/committing a new one.  I believe that any at_exit,
on_shmem_exit, etc routine that tries to perform database changes will
need to be coded similarly.

			regards, tom lane