Re: "writable CTEs"

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:28 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:19:47AM +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> Is there interest in correcting this, by putting "CTEs" or "Common
>> table expressions" in parenthesis after "WITH queries" in the docs
>> at certain select places? I could write a documentation patch.
>
> +1 :)

Would it make sense to work a section into the documentation
explaining the semantics of CTEs?  e.g., evaluate-once.

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