Re: aliases for temp tables....

Alfonso Peniche <alfonso@iteso.mx> writes:
> I've been looking everywhere and I can't find this:
> Everytime I create a temp table (Thanx Tom) within a procedure, a table
> named like pg_temp.###.# is created (I know this is MY temp table). How
> can I know the name (or alias) for this table so that I can, later on,
> check if it already exists.

AFAIK there is no way to retrieve the temp-table name mapping from the
backend.  Sorry ...

When we implement schemas (hopefully for 7.2) perhaps it will be
possible to reimplement temp tables in a slightly less klugy way,
so that this sort of problem goes away.

            regards, tom lane