Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > Greg Stark wrote: > >> It seems to me simpler and more direct to just nail relcache > >> entries for these objects into memory and manipulate them directly. > >> They can be constructed from the global catalog tables and then > >> tweaked to point to the backend local temporary tables. > > > Funny, but that is how I implemented temporary tables in 1999 and lasted > > until 2002 when schema support was added. It actually worked because > > all the lookups go through the syscache. > > ... and as I recall, we got rid of it principally because the temp > tables weren't visible to ordinary catalog lookups, thus breaking > all sorts of client-side logic.
Yes, I felt lucky the breakage was so minimal. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
