Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Greg Stark wrote:
> >> It seems to me simpler and more direct to just nail relcache
> >> entries for these objects into memory and manipulate them directly.
> >> They can be constructed from the global catalog tables and then
> >> tweaked to point to the backend local temporary tables.
>
> > Funny, but that is how I implemented temporary tables in 1999 and lasted
> > until 2002 when schema support was added. It actually worked because
> > all the lookups go through the syscache.
>
> ... and as I recall, we got rid of it principally because the temp
> tables weren't visible to ordinary catalog lookups, thus breaking
> all sorts of client-side logic.
Yes, I felt lucky the breakage was so minimal.
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