Re: 7.4 ERROR: CREATE LOCAL TEMPORARY TABLE ... ON COMMIT DROP inside a function

Typo, see below:

"ezra epstein" <ee_newsgroup_post@prajnait.com> wrote in message
news:xl2dnZZJS71gH2iiXTWc-g@speakeasy.net...
> I found a post about something similar in an older release:
>     http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2002-08/msg00151.php
>
> Here's the issue.  Inside a function I'm calling
>         CREATE LOCAL TEMPORARY TABLE ds_copy_item_meta ( LIKE
> merchandise.item_meta EXCLUDING DEFAULTS ) on COMMIT DROP;
>
> Of course it might be that the ON COMMIT DROP is redundant, I don't know
> enough about temp tables.  Here's the problem, however, the first call of
> the table works fine.  The second call it complains about a bad OID.
Could

that should read: the first call of the function.

> it be that the bug that was fixed for regular temporary tables (without an
> on commit modifier) somehow didn't get fixed for this construct?
>
> The work-around has been to just not use the modifier, but I was surprised
> by the OID error and think it might be incorrect behavior.
>
> == Ezra Epstein.
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