| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: RE: [PATCHES] relation filename patch |
| Date: | 2000-05-01 18:08:30 |
| Message-ID: | 200005011808.OAA29916@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Hmm. Further perusal leads me to believe that this override is a
> > standards extension, as the clause about the tablename being unique in
> > the current namespace does not have an exception for temporary tables.
> > Nothing wrong with that, just making it clear. What's the use/case for
> > this feature? Does it come from some other DMBS?
>
> I am quite surprised people don't like that feature, or at least one
> person doesn't. If someone else creates a table, it should not prevent
> me from creating a temporary table of the same name.
>
> I know Informix doesn't implement it that way, and they complained
Sorry, I should have said "One of my users complained..."
> because a program started not working. Research showed that someone had
> created a real table with the same name as the temp table.
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