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

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-07-03T15:43:38Z

> 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.

Thanks.  I have added AbortOutOfAnyTransaction() to the fix.  I did not
have that function call.

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