Re: including backend ID in relpath of temp rels - updated patch

Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just "DROP TABLE pg_temp_2.foo" or whatever and away you go.

> wow! that's true... and certainly a bug...

No, it's not a bug.  You'll find only superusers can do it.

> we shouldn't allow any session to drop other session's temp tables, or
> is there a reason for this misbehavior?

It is intentional, though I'd be willing to give it up if we had more
bulletproof crash-cleanup of temp tables --- which is one of the things
this patch is supposed to result in.
        regards, tom lane