TEMPORARY TABLES

Hi

I am working on some development here and have decided to use temporary tables to do some work as they seemed to be the best way to acheive what I wanted and the data is only required for the sesion.

I seem to be experiencing a problem where the only way the temporary tables are removed is by actually dropping them or by  bouncing the database.

I thought that they were supposed to be session specific or program module specific.

Perhaps I misundestood the docs

I am creating them as follows

v_CreateString := 'CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE t_tmp_cal1 ( part NUMBER, readings NUMBER) ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS';                 EXECUTE IMMEDIATE  v_CreateString;
and
v_CreateString := 'CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE t_tmp_cal2 ( part NUMBER) ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS';         EXECUTE IMMEDIATE v_CreateString;  

Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production

I have looked at metalink and found nothing specific to point the way Any help appreciated

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