Re: can a insert with a returning clause be subquery ?

On Saturday 02 February 2008 4:12 pm, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 6:22 PM, chrisj <chrisj(dot)wood(at)sympatico(dot)ca> wrote:
> > I know I could do this easily with a stored proc,
> > but it seems like an obvious use of the returning clause
> >
> > Am I missing some syntax error
>
> Nope, you're not missing anything. When I initially wrote this for
> Postgres, it didn't support all cases; including the one you're
> running into. It's not extremely difficult to extend, but as there
> are so few people asking for this functionality, no one has found it
> important enough to warrant extension. Perhaps I'll get to it for
> 8.4.

Would this be a variation of this item from the TODO:

* Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING inside a SELECT 'FROM' clause

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-09/msg00803.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00693.php

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