Re: Temporary tables under hot standby

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2012-06-08T17:38:19Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 8 June 2012 18:26, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would be more open to warning people about CREATE GLOBAL TEMP TABLE
> - frankly, it's pretty wonky that we allow that but treat GLOBAL as a
> noise word in this first place.  But I'm a little disinclined to have
> the message speculate about what might happen in future versions of
> PostgreSQL.  Such predictions don't have a very good track record of
> being accurate.

Agreed.

We should make use of GLOBAL throw an ERROR: feature not yet
implemented, in preparation for what might one day happen. We don't
know the future but we do know the present.

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