Re: global temporary tables

Tom Lane escribió:
> [ forgot to respond to this part ]
> 
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > ...  I don't see the problem with DROP.
> > Under the proposed design, it's approximately equivalent to dropping a
> > table that someone else has truncated.  You just wait for the
> > necessary lock and then do it.
> 
> And do *what*?  You can remove the catalog entries, but how are you
> going to make the physical storage of other backends' versions go away?
> (To say nothing of making them flush their local buffers for it.)

Maybe we could add a sinval message to that effect.

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