Re: Early WIP/PoC for inlining CTEs

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-28T21:54:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Prevent inlining of multiply-referenced CTEs with outer recursive refs.

  2. Allow user control of CTE materialization, and change the default behavior.

  3. Split QTW_EXAMINE_RTES flag into QTW_EXAMINE_RTES_BEFORE/_AFTER.

  4. document when PREPARE uses generic plans

On 28/01/2019 21:35, Tom Lane wrote:
> Conceivably we could make it work without the parens:
> 
>     WITH ctename AS [ option = value [ , .... ] ] ( query .... )
> 
> which for the immediate feature I'd be tempted to spell as
> 
>     WITH ctename AS [ materialize = on/off ] ( query ... )
> 
> I think the only reason the syntax is MATERIALIZED with a D is that
> that's already a keyword; it reads a bit awkwardly IMO.  But if we
> were accepting a ColId there, there'd be room to adjust the spelling.

Or put it at the end?

    WITH ctename AS ( query ) MATERIALIZED

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