Re: top-level DML under CTEs

2010/9/15 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com> writes:
>> 2010/9/15 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>>> Why is it so difficult to do this correctly?
>
>> Because INSERT INTO ... (SELECT|VALUES) is already a collection of
>> kludge (as comments say). It was possible to parse the two WITHs
>> separately, but it results in ambiguous naming issue;
>> parseWithClause() asserts there's only one WITH clause in the Stmt and
>> detects duplicated CTE name in it.
>
> Well, I would think that the no-duplication rule applies to each WITH
> list separately, not both together.  If you do something like
>
> with t1 as (select * from foo)
>  select * from
>    (with t2 as (select * from foo)
>       select * from t1, t2) ss;
>

Well, I didn't know it is allowed. That would look like the way to go.

Regards,



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Hitoshi Harada