Re: WITH RECUSIVE patches 0723

Hello

2008/7/29 Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:57:16PM +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
>> Which will be a serious pessimization in many common cases if you do
>> it all the time. Googling for examples of non-recursive WITH queries
>> shows that it is very widely used for clarity or convenience, in
>> contexts where you _don't_ want materialization.
>
> Since the problem is using the result of a WITH clause more than once,
> would it be sufficient to simply detect that case and bail? You don't
> want materialisation is most cases, there's just a few where it is
> needed.
>

I thing so materialisation is more important than you thing. Without
materialisation I could use derived tables, but materialisation in
WITH statement is unique feature usefull for analytical queries. I am
sure, so materialisation should be one from possible strategies.

I like to see this feature in core, with/without materialisation is
usefull for recursive queries and I thing so materialisation should be
add in next months. I don't see it as mayor break. I prefere early
commit of this patch (with neccessary documentation), because there
will be some work that cannot be commited concurently - analytic
queries and my implementation of rollup and cube operator.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

> Have a nice day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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