Re: INSERT INTO...RETURNING vs SELECT

From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: INSERT INTO...RETURNING vs SELECT
Date: 2010-04-05 07:10:26
Message-ID: 20100405071026.GA5610@tux
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Cliff Wells <cliff(at)develix(dot)com> wrote:

> As far as I can see, INSERT INTO...RETURNING is semantically equivalent
> to SELECT...FROM with a side-effect, so it seems this construct should
> work. Can someone shed some light?

Well, at the moment you can't reuse the RETURNING-values, you have to
wait for 9.1, writeable CTE.

Andreas
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