On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:10:25AM -0700, Lenorovitz, Joel wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to work with a TEMP TABLE within a plpgsql function and I > was wondering if anyone can explain why the function below, which is > fine syntactically, will work as expected the first time it is called, > but will err out as shown on subsequent calls.
Known problem, I beleive it's even mentioned in the docs. Basically, if you use temp tables in pl/pgsql, you have to use EXECUTE for the statements referring to it. The issue is that pl/pgsql is caching the plan and so tries to use the plan with the old temp table after the table has gone. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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