Re: Temporary schemas

From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Temporary schemas
Date: 2010-11-01 20:27:46
Message-ID: ian7rr$8m1$2@dough.gmane.org
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Merlin Moncure wrote on 01.11.2010 21:13:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Thomas Kellerer<spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have created a temporary table using
>>
>> create temporary table foo
>> (
>> id integer
>> );
>>
>> and noticed this was created in a schema called "pg_temp_2"
>>
>> My question is:
>>
>> is this always "pg_temp_2"?
>> Or will the name of the "temp schema" change?
>>
>> If it isn't always the same, is there a way I can retrieve the schema name
>> for temporary tables?
>
> Curious why you'd want to do this -- temporary magic schemas are an
> implementation artifact, and there shouldn't ever be a reason to
> directly reference them.
>
Yes and no ;)

The problem is, that the JDBC driver only returns information about the temp tables, if I specify that schema directly.

Thomas

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