Re: "writable CTEs"

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "writable CTEs"
Date: 2010-12-28 20:04:38
Message-ID: 1293566678.21318.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tis, 2010-12-28 at 16:04 +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> If I search for "common table expressions" on Wikipedia, I am sent to
> the common table expressions article, without any re-direction. The
> article doesn't mention "with query" as a synonym of CTE at any point.
> If I search for "With query", the first page of results (20 articles)
> doesn't have anything about CTEs at all.

Apparently, the term "common table expression" comes from Microsoft and
IBM. If you search for "SELECT WITH clause" you get a bunch of Oracle
links.

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