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

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-07-08T03:06:28Z

> Problem Description:  -------------------- When you execute a
> wrong SQL command after create a TEMP TABLE, postgres backend
> doesn't drop this table after connection ends. We can't drop
> pg_temp.PID.N with "drop table" command because it is a system
> catalog table. So, we had to dumpall the database, edit db.out
> file to erase lines of pg_temp??? create table and reload it
> again.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Test Case:  ---------- psql mydb mydb=> select * into temp table
> TMP from anytable; mydb=> drop table invalidTable; mydb=> \q
> psql mydb mydb=> \dS    --> You will see a new permanent system
> table.

This will be fixed in 6.5.1, due out next week.

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