| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, 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 02:28:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20101228022820.GD25421@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:19:47AM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> It's worth noting that officially (i.e. in the docs), we don't even
> call CTEs CTEs at any point. We call them WITH queries. I think that
> that's a mistake because we call them CTEs everywhere else.
Agreed.
> Is there interest in correcting this, by putting "CTEs" or "Common
> table expressions" in parenthesis after "WITH queries" in the docs
> at certain select places? I could write a documentation patch.
+1 :)
Cheers,
David.
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