Re: DROP [TEMP] TABLE syntax, as reason why not?

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm wondering if there is anything technical preventing someone from
> making:
>
> > DROP TEMP TABLE tablename;
>
> There is no great need for that because you can get the semantics you're
> asking for with "DROP TABLE pg_temp.tablename".
>

Furthermore, as a matter of good database management ideally the role
creating and dropping temporary tables is different from the role that
retains ownership​ of permanent tables - so that even if the wrong table
was selected object permissions would prevent its being dropped.

I don't think I'd -1 a patch that attempted to provide some incremental
improvement here but I just don't see one being written or getting enough
support to go through. And that doesn't bother me - even if I was in a
position to do so I likely wouldn't write one at this point.

David J.