Re: Early WIP/PoC for inlining CTEs

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Early WIP/PoC for inlining CTEs
Date: 2019-01-30 02:35:13
Message-ID: 20190130023512.GX12076@fetter.org
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 02:52:44PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 05:05:32PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yeah, I thought about that too, but it doesn't seem like an improvement.
> >> If the query is very long (which isn't unlikely) I think people would
> >> prefer to see the option(s) up front.
>
> > Having these options at the front of the WITH clause looks more
> > natural to me.
>
> Well, we've managed to get agreement on the semantics of this thing,
> let's not get hung up on the syntax details.
>
> I propose that we implement and document this as
>
> WITH ctename AS [ MATERIALIZE { ON | OFF } ] ( query )

I think this would be better with parentheses like this:

WITH ctename [ ( MATERIALIZE { ON | OFF } ) ] AS ( query ) [, ... ]

and it's a lot easier to add more query hints later.

Best,
David.
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