Re: "writable CTEs"

On 29/12/10 03:35, Peter Eisentraut wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1293546926.9478.1.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com"
type="cite"><prewrap="">On tis, 2010-12-28 at 00:19 +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
 
</pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">It's worth noting that officially (i.e. in the docs), we don't even
call CTEs CTEs at any point. We call them WITH queries. I think that
that's a mistake because we call them CTEs everywhere else.
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I think "WITH query" or "WITH clause" is more understandable than CTE,
which to me is a term that has no relationship with anything else.


</pre></blockquote><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica"><br /> Peter's comment certainly resonates with me. When I
firstheard about this "CTE" business I had to go to the web to discover that they were components of the WITH clause -
whichI was familiar with from my DB2 days... <br /><br /> regards<br /><br /> Mark<br /></font></font>