Re: problem with temporary table.

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On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:03, Vijay Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> We are using postgresql7.3.3, we are encountering some problems by
> using temporary tables.
>
> Actually our requirement was,
> 1. create temporary table.
> 2. insert some values on that table by using some quries.
> 3. select the inserted values from the temporary table.
>
< snip>
>
> The above function is working fine for the first call, from next
> call onwards it is throwing the below error. Error: relation 'temp_table'
> already exists.
>

So drop the table when you are done with it.

You may also want to investigate returning a table of data, rather than a
cursor or a single row. I am not too sure on how this would work exactly
because I have never done it. Someone else may be willing to fill in the
details.

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