Re: Temporary schemas

Merlin Moncure wrote on 01.11.2010 21:13:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Thomas Kellerer<spam_eater@gmx.net>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have created a temporary table using
>>
>> create temporary table foo
>> (
>>   id integer
>> );
>>
>> and noticed this was created in a schema called "pg_temp_2"
>>
>> My question is:
>>
>> is this always "pg_temp_2"?
>> Or will the name of the "temp schema" change?
>>
>> If it isn't always the same, is there a way I can retrieve the schema name
>> for temporary tables?
>
> Curious why you'd want to do this -- temporary magic schemas are an
> implementation artifact, and there shouldn't ever be a reason to
> directly reference them.
>
Yes and no ;)

The problem is, that the JDBC driver only returns information about the temp tables, if I specify that schema directly.

Thomas