Daniil Davydov <3daniss...@gmail.com> writes:
> I noticed that TRUNCATE and ALTER commands on temporary tables of other
> sessions produce an error "cannot truncate/alter temporary tables of other
> sessions". But are there any reasons to allow us to DROP such tables?
> It seems to me that the only case when we may need it is the removal of
> orphan tables. But the autovacuum is responsible for this and it uses a
> different functionality. I'm wondering if there are any other cases. If
> not, can we just handle it for example in ExecDropStmt and produce an error
> like "cannot drop temporary tables of other sessions"?
If autovacuum can do it, I don't see a reason to prevent superusers
from doing it manually.
regards, tom lane
