Re: Access a temporary table of another session - is it possible ?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Access a temporary table of another session - is it possible ?
Date: 2006-01-24 17:03:02
Message-ID: 19924.1138122182@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> writes:
> As the subject says, I would like to access a temporary table of another
> session, while being the postgres superuser. Is this possible somehow ?

No. It is not a matter of permissions, it is a matter of physically not
having access to the data: buffers for temp tables are private to
individual backends, not shared, for performance reasons.

regards, tom lane

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