Delete temp tables

Hi people!

I'm writing a script to erase non-droped temp tables. When I tried to delete
from pg_tables, the following problem raises:


**check out, there are data:
relatorio=# SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename like 'pg_temp.%';
 count
-------
   101
(1 row)


**There are data, really:
relatorio=# SELECT * FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename like 'pg_temp.%' LIMIT
5;
    tablename    | tableowner | hasindexes | hasrules | hastriggers
-----------------+------------+------------+----------+-------------
 pg_temp.10752.1 | postgres   | f          | f        | f
 pg_temp.1085.10 | postgres   | f          | f        | f
 pg_temp.1085.11 | postgres   | f          | f        | f
 pg_temp.1085.12 | postgres   | f          | f        | f
 pg_temp.1085.13 | postgres   | f          | f        | f
(5 rows)

**But when I execute a delete, nothing happens:
relatorio=# DELETE FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename like 'pg_temp.%';
DELETE 0
relatorio=#

**or
relatorio=# delete from pg_tables where tablename ='pg_temp.1823.12';
DELETE 0

** I tried everything, even with double quotes (of course doesn't work).
relatorio=# delete from pg_tables where tablename ="pg_temp.1823.12";
ERROR:  Attribute 'pg_temp.1823.12' not found


Why DELETE 0, if the select, with same structure, shows data?

I remember that table associated files where auto-removed. I went to
$PGDATA/base/relatorio and there were no temp_table files. I created them by
my self.

Now, how can I remove these temp tables?

Regards from Brazil,

José Vilson de Mello de Farias
Dígitro Tecnologia Ltda.