From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: docs: WITH queries and VALUES |
Date: | 2012-04-12 14:03:22 |
Message-ID: | 1600.1334239402@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Magnus Hagander (magnus(at)hagander(dot)net) wrote:
>> with_query_name [ ( column_name [, ...] ) ] AS ( select | insert |
>> update | delete )
>> Should that list that you can use values as well? Or is it something
>> we generally consider "wherever select works you can use values"?
> TABLE also works there, and here:
Well, "TABLE foo" is defined as a shorthand for "SELECT * FROM foo",
so ISTM it's not too surprising that you can use it wherever you
can use SELECT. I'm not sure that people have a similar view of
VALUES though. It might be worth adding VALUES to the WITH syntax.
regards, tom lane
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