Re: top-level DML under CTEs

Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2010/9/15 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> Why is it so difficult to do this correctly?

> Because INSERT INTO ... (SELECT|VALUES) is already a collection of
> kludge (as comments say). It was possible to parse the two WITHs
> separately, but it results in ambiguous naming issue;
> parseWithClause() asserts there's only one WITH clause in the Stmt and
> detects duplicated CTE name in it.

Well, I would think that the no-duplication rule applies to each WITH
list separately, not both together. If you do something like

with t1 as (select * from foo)
select * from
(with t2 as (select * from foo)
select * from t1, t2) ss;

there's no expectation that the WITH clauses can't both define the same
name.

regards, tom lane