Gavin, how are you doing with this. As I remember, the only remaining
issue was where to store the 'drop on commit' information in the
backend. If that is all there is, we can come up with a solution.
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Gavin Sherry wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> writes:
> > > template1=# create temp table a (a int) on commit drop;
> > > ERROR: You must be inside a transaction to use ON COMMIT
> >
> > Surely that's only for ON COMMIT DROP, if you intend to offer the
> > others?
>
> I should have provided details of this in the email. SQL99 details the
> baviour as follows:
>
> If TEMPORARY is specified and ON COMMIT is omitted, then ON COMMIT
> DELETE ROWS is implicit
>
> This might give users a bit of a surprise so the effective behaviour is ON
> COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS.
>
> As for your question (and, perhaps, SQL99) I don't seen how it makes any
> sense to specify ON COMMIT outside of a transaction block.
>
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
>
> Gavin
>
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