Re: temp tables and pg_pconnect()

--- Adam Lang <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com> wrote:
> Are temp tables supposed to be destroyed when the connection
> is cosed?  If
> so, then the reason is because with pconnect, the connection
> really is never
> killed as far as Postgresql sees it.  The connection remains
> open.

pg_pconnect does keep the existing connection to PostgresSQL so
the temporary table would not be dropped.

> Can you drop the temp table yourself through the pg_exec
> comand and just use
> DROP TABLE ?

That would be a reasonable approach.  Or, if you do not need to
drop the table it would be might be more efficient to perform a
TRUNCATE rather than the DROP and CREATE combo.  That would
depend upon your system.

Brent

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