Thanks, guys!
SELECT * INTO <good-old-unique-name-based-on-process-id> ...
works just fine for me :-)
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Mark Volpe <volpe.mark@epamail.epa.gov> writes:
> > BEGIN;
> > SELECT * INTO TEMP numbers2 FROM numbers;
> > SELECT * FROM numbers2;
> > -- Bang!!! --
> > Can anybody reproduce this?
>
> Yah :-(. There are several nasty bugs in 6.5.*'s support for TEMP
> tables. We believe they are all fixed for 7.0, but the changes are
> intertwined with a lot of other stuff, and so back-patching the fixes
> didn't look very practical.
>
> The only good news is that 7.0 goes beta next week...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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