Re: Review of Writeable CTE Patch

Marko Tiikkaja <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi>

From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-03T16:04:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2010-02-03 16:09 UTC+2, Robert Haas wrote:
> Why can't we complain about the actual SQL statement the user issued?
> Like, say:
> 
> INSERT requires RETURNING when used within a referenced CTE

The SELECT equivalent of this query looks like this:
=> with recursive t as (select * from t) values(true);
ERROR:  recursive query "t" does not have the form non-recursive-term
UNION [ALL] recursive-term

but I didn't want to throw people off to think that they can use
INSERT/UPDATE/RETURNING in a RECURSIVE CTE, just to get complaints about
syntax error.


Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja