From: | Ian Burrell <ianburrell(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Reliably finding temporary table |
Date: | 2005-06-07 23:01:02 |
Message-ID: | d91f09cd050607160138aa384f@mail.gmail.com |
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We have some functions which need to dynamically create a temporary
table if it does not already exist. We use the following function:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_date_time_exists() RETURNS BOOLEAN AS '
BEGIN
RETURN EXISTS (
SELECT * FROM pg_class
WHERE relname = ''test_date_time''
AND pg_table_is_visible(oid)
);
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' STABLE
However, this has been failing occassionally with errors like
ERROR: cache lookup failed for relation 3454264547
From looking in the list archives, I found a description of
pg_table_is_visible failing because it has different snapshot
semantics than the SELECT. Is there a solution for this problem? Is
there another function I can use? What is a better way to detect temp
tables visible to the session?
- Ian
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