Re: BUG #18536: Using WITH inside WITH RECURSIVE triggers a "shouldn't happen" error

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: BUG #18536: Using WITH inside WITH RECURSIVE triggers a "shouldn't happen" error
Date: 2024-07-15 12:17:53
Message-ID: CAJ7c6TN-yeXYS27DDd+eaOCRunjSCMNScHYJW-NarUQTC4Bh=Q@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

> > triggers an error:
> > ERROR: XX000: missing recursive reference
> > LOCATION: checkWellFormedRecursion, parse_cte.c:896
>
> FWIW I couldn't reproduce the reported error on REL_17_STABLE
> (b8bf76cbde39). The error I got seems reasonable:
>
> ```
> 46087 (master) =# WITH RECURSIVE t(n) AS (
> WITH t1 AS (SELECT 1 FROM t) SELECT 1
> UNION
> SELECT 1 FROM t1)
> SELECT * FROM t;
> ERROR: recursive reference to query "t" must not appear within a subquery
> LINE 2: WITH t1 AS (SELECT 1 FROM t) SELECT 1
> ^
> ```
>
> We should add regression tests though, as v2 does.

Oops. That's because Tom pushed this already (cf588e10f664). Sorry for
the noise.

--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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