Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A95C633C86 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:52:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13487-04 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:52:38 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from perseverance.services.encs.concordia.ca (perseverance-96.encs.concordia.ca [132.205.96.94]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE5D62DBE7 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:52:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: from cacao.encs.concordia.ca (emilu@cacao.encs.concordia.ca [132.205.47.225]) by perseverance.services.encs.concordia.ca (envelope-from emilu@encs.concordia.ca) (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id n6EIqc2O012705; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:52:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4A5CD3F6.8030505@encs.concordia.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:52:38 -0400 From: Emi Lu Reply-To: emilu@encs.concordia.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: Scott Marlowe , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Request new version to support "on commit drop" for create temp table ... as select ? References: <4A5C9F55.5050305@encs.concordia.ca> <25173.1247590050@sss.pgh.pa.us> <26125.1247593106@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <26125.1247593106@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on perseverance.encs.concordia.ca at 2009/07/14 14:52:38 EDT X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200907/73 X-Sequence-Number: 32814 Got it. Thank you Tom! > Scott Marlowe writes: >> That's what I thought, but > >> create temp table xyz as select * from abc on commit drop; > >> still fails on 8.3. Was this fixed in 8.4 or is my syntax wonky? > > Your syntax is wonky -- switch the clause order. > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-createtableas.html > > regards, tom lane >