Re: Writeable CTEs and empty relations

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Writeable CTEs and empty relations
Date: 2010-02-11 17:28:28
Message-ID: ca21d184f7fc2b3476e35b1e3e193ae5@cs.helsinki.fi
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:53:22 -0500, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Marko Tiikkaja
> <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi> wrote:
>> On 2010-02-11 03:44 +0200, I wrote:
>>> I'm going to have to disappoint a bunch of people and give up. :-(
>>
>> Btw. would it make sense to apply the WITH-on-top-of-DML part of this
>> patch?  At least to me, this seems useful because you can write a
>> RECURSIVE SELECT and then use UPDATE .. FROM or DELETE .. USING on that
>> CTE.
>
> Hmm, that's a thought. Can you split out just that part?

Here's the patch. It's the same as the stuff in writeable CTE patches, but
I added regression tests.

Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja

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