On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 09:08:27AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 03:34:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Seems hard to avoid. We could conceivably make it return "pg_temp"
>> for the temp schema instead of the schema's actual name, but it's
>> not very hard to think of ways whereby that would make use of the
>> result fail in contexts where it previously worked.
>
> CREATE EXTENSION is one such case. It would not work if referring to
> the synonym pg_temp, but it can work if using directly the temporary
> namespace of the session. So I feel that changing such things is
> prone to break more things than to actually fix things.
As long as I don't forget about it.. current_schema() is classified
as stable, so it's not like we can make it return pg_temp and then the
real temporary schema name within the same transaction...
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Michael