Re: Implementation of global temporary tables?

Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2015-07-20 5:33 GMT+02:00 Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>:
>
> > Would it be difficult to add the ability for one user to share the
> > contents with a list of named other users (roles)?
>
> Probably it is possible, but not for temporary data - short data are in
> process memory, so it are not accessible from other sessions.
>
> This sharing tables needs:
>
> 1. some infrastructure to hold data about sharing - who can share with what
> 2. who will clean data? temporary data are cleaned on end of transaction or
> end of session
> 3. data should be saved in shared memory instead process memory
>
> So it is possible, but partially different

To me this gets in the "crazy ideas" list.  Please add it to the TODO
page in the wiki, so that we're sure we never implement it.

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