Re: top-level DML under CTEs

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: top-level DML under CTEs
Date: 2010-09-13 19:14:49
Message-ID: AANLkTinVeefjte4_NvFwPWfEvanR=49Q9eeajjV42Bc4@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Just to be clear, the attached patch is missing the part of the wCTE
> that allows queries of the form:
> WITH foo AS (DELETE * FROM bar RETURNING *) <any query using foo>

Understood.

> IOW, your CTE query has to be a select.  This is still highly useful
> however.

Agreed.

> The patch itself looks very clean after a quick glance
> (which is all I can offer ATM unfortunately).

Yeah, I haven't had a chance to look at it either, just wanted to send props.

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Robert Haas
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