On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 4:44 PM Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> wrote: > > You do have to lock a table in order to update its pg_class row, > > though, whether the table is temporary or not. Otherwise, another > > session could drop it while you're doing something with it, after > > which bad things would happen. > > I was responding to this from Andres: > > > Is that actually true? Don't we skip some locking operations for temporary > > tables, which then also means catalog modifications cannot safely be done in > > other sessions? > > I don't actually see this in the code ...
Yes, I think Andres may be wrong in this case. (Dang, I don't get to say that very often.) -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
