diff --git a/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c b/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c
index 31de26aa3fe..bac41ceabc5 100644
--- a/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c
+++ b/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c,v 1.12.4.1 2004/10/13 22:22:00 tgl Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c,v 1.12.4.2 2009/03/31 22:56:28 tgl Exp $
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2001,2002	Tatsuo Ishii
  *
@@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ pgstattuple_real(Relation rel)
 	int			i;
 	Datum		result;
 
+	/*
+	 * Reject attempts to read non-local temporary relations; we would
+	 * be likely to get wrong data since we have no visibility into the
+	 * owning session's local buffers.
+	 */
+	if (isOtherTempNamespace(RelationGetNamespace(rel)))
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+				 errmsg("cannot access temporary tables of other sessions")));
+
 	/*
 	 * Build a tuple description for a pgstattupe_type tuple
 	 */