Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> wrote:
> 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.
+1
It has always bothered me that we support GLOBAL there without
coming anywhere near matching the semantics of GTTs.
-Kevin