Re: Detecting Temporary Tables

What i want to be able to do is create a tempory table and when i need a
value stored in the table  i want to check that the table has been
created if it has not do a create temp table .... or just do an update.

Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:22:51AM +1100, Jamie Deppeler wrote:
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>>Is it possible to detect the instance of a Temporary through a function?
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> What are you trying to do?
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> Temporary tables are stored in the pg_temp_NNN schema (e.g.,
> pg_temp_1).  See the "System Catalogs" chapter in the PostgreSQL
> documentation for information on finding a table's schema.  If
> you're using 7.4 or later then see also the "Information Schema"
> chapter -- one of its views has two fields that should be helpful.
>