Re: Mapping MERGE onto CTEs (Re: MERGE SQL Statement for PG11)

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Mapping MERGE onto CTEs (Re: MERGE SQL Statement for PG11)
Date: 2017-11-02 08:06:50
Message-ID: CAMsr+YGnpTmp0smJB2Je_FfFtWq_oc3AgVq72zXtnHCjvcfzog@mail.gmail.com
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On 2 November 2017 at 01:14, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> Nico Williams wrote:
>
>> As an aside, I'd like to be able to control which CTEs are view-like and
>> which are table-like. In SQLite3, for example, they are all view-like,
>> and the optimizer will act accordingly, whereas in PG they are all
>> table-like, and thus optimizer barriers.
>
> There was a short and easy to grasp (OK, maybe not) discussion on the
> topic of CTEs acting differently. I think the consensus is that for
> CTEs that are read-only and do not use functions that aren't immutable,
> they may be considered for inlining.
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5351711493487900@web53g.yandex.ru

Yep. All theoretical though, I don't think anyone (myself included)
stumped up a patch.

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