Re: why doesn't insert into foo delete from bar returning baz work?

Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> wrote:

> While you can do
>
> insert into foo (a, b) select a, b from bar;
>
> and
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> delete from bar where a=1 returning a, b;
>
> it fails to run
>
> insert into foo (a, b) delete from bar where a=1 returning a, b;
>
> This is not what I would expect. Is there a reason for it not working?

Yeah, it's a great feature, called writeable CTE, see here:

http://akretschmer.blogspot.com/2009/11/writeable-cte-short-performance-test.html

Unfortunately, the patch from Mirko Tiikkaja was rejected due to some
technical problems. I'm waiting for 9.1 ...

Andreas
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