> That would respond to the abstraction concern in a more complete
> fashion. I thought about that one too, but felt that the ability to
> look at the whole pg_class row (and not only check existence) had some
> value. Also, I've seen people doing things like
> ... where relname LIKE 'pattern' and ...
> which still works with the namespace OID function but would not work
> with a does_temp_table_exist() function. I wouldn't object to doing
> both this and the OID function, though. Do you have a proposal for
> the exact spelling of the exists() function?
I guess pg_temp_table_exists(text) is the most straightforward.
Merlin