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<title id="SQL-CREATETABLE-compatibility-title">Compatibility</title>
<para>
- The <command>CREATE TABLE</command> conforms to SQL92 Intermediate
+ The <command>CREATE TABLE</command> command conforms to SQL92
and to a subset of SQL99, with exceptions listed below and in the
descriptions above.
</para>
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> does not have modules, and
requires each session to issue its own <literal>CREATE TEMPORARY
TABLE</literal> command for each temporary table to be used.
+ The notion of <literal>GLOBAL</literal> temporary tables found in SQL92
+ is not in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> at all.
</para>
<note>
</note>
<para>
- The optional <literal>ON COMMIT</literal> clause for temporary tables
+ The <literal>ON COMMIT</literal> clause for temporary tables
also resembles SQL92, but has some differences.
If the <literal>ON COMMIT</> clause is omitted, SQL92 specifies that the
default behavior is <literal>ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS</>. However, the