Title kind of says it all, here is a sample query:

BEGIN
    DECLARE LOCAL TEMPORARY TABLE tmp(id INTEGER, val VARCHAR(20));
    SELECT * FROM sys.syscolumns WHERE tname = 'tmp';
END;

Any ideas?

asked 14 Mar '22, 08:14

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edited 14 Mar '22, 09:20

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Volker Barth
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I found a workaround:

BEGIN
    DECLARE LOCAL TEMPORARY TABLE tmp(id INTEGER, val VARCHAR(20));
    SELECT * FROM sa_describe_query('select * from tmp');
END;
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answered 14 Mar '22, 09:20

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edited 25 Mar '22, 05:29

Nice, I just wanted to mentioned another answer - with exactly that solution.

(14 Mar '22, 09:24) Volker Barth

AFAIK, you cannot, because by definition local temporary tables – in contrast to permanent tables and global temporary tables – are not contained in the system catalog.

Catalog queries like in your sample or builtin functions like the sa_get_table_definition() system procedure rely on the system catalog to provide information, so they won't offer information for local temporary tables.


FWIW, the table SYSTAB itself specifies that the column "table_type" is set to 4 in case of a "Local temporary table", so my assumption might be wrong.

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answered 14 Mar '22, 08:56

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edited 14 Mar '22, 09:17

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