| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SET variables |
| Date: | 2001-05-13 21:29:12 |
| Message-ID: | 200105132129.f4DLTCZ19088@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> In Oracle, temp tables occupy the same name space. One can not have two or more
> users with the same temp table name without it being the same table. This is
> why temp tables are not as used as one would think in Oracle.
>
> To use a temp table in Oracle you have to some up with some random naming
> scheme. It really blows. Because of this Oracle developers have long stayed
> away from temp tables.
Wow, that really does stink. I know Informix can't have a temp table
with the same name as a real table, and I thought that was bad, but
Oracle is much worse.
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