Re: Writeable CTEs and empty relations

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-02-11T15:53:22Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Marko Tiikkaja
<marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.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?

...Robert