Re: how do I check if a temporary table exists?

Multiple backends can create temp tables with the same name and each
person will see their own version.

> Thus spake datactrl
> > How do I check if a temporary table exists? Searching pg_tables with a
> > temporary table name we chose always fails.
>
> What do you mean? You know that it exists because you just created it
> and the create succeeded. Can you describe a situation where you need
> to know about a temp table and don't already know?
>
> It can't go into the pg_tables table because then it would be visible
> to other processes. Are you perhaps misunderstanding temp tables? You
> cannot see them except from the process that created them.
>
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