OK, this is a complete novice question.
Do we or do we not have temp tables (and/or unnamed tables)?
If we don't why not?
I can see them making quite a few places of current development a lot
easier and flexible. I do realize TANSTAAFL, but as I grok it could be
used for multiple tuple return from functions, the
deferrable-constraints problems, implementing the SQL92 join syntax, and
subselects in from clauses and select lists.
Just more of those ideas,
-DEJ