Re: ANSI SQL-99 SYNTAX and "WITH"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Cc: Rein Petersen <rp2969(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ANSI SQL-99 SYNTAX and "WITH"
Date: 2004-06-04 20:43:33
Message-ID: 10375.1086381813@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> writes:
> Rein Petersen <rp2969(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> As you may have guessed, I hope PostgreSQL currently supports the
>> "WITH" clause syntax or, will at least support it imminently.

> Postgres doesn't currently support that. Someone was working on it a while
> back, but I haven't heard anything lately, so I don't know if some version
> of it is going to be in the next release.

Andrew Overholt was working on it awhile back. I've been meaning to
pick up the pieces and see what I could do with it, but at this point
it's a pretty safe bet that it won't make 7.5. Maybe next time.

regards, tom lane

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