Gavin, was this addressed?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Surely it does.
>
> CREATE TEMP TABLE foo(...) ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS;
>
> BEGIN;
> insert some rows in foo;
> process rows in foo;
> COMMIT; -- foo is now empty again
>
> BEGIN;
> insert some rows in foo;
> process rows in foo;
> COMMIT; -- foo is now empty again
>
> repeat until application quit...
>
> What am I missing?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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