Re: [HACKERS] CTE inlining

On 1 May 2017 at 21:22, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> Having had years of telling users that CTEs are an optimization fence it
> doesn't seem at all nice for us to turn around and change our mind about
> that. I have relied on it in the past and I'm sure I'm very far from
> alone in that.
>
> Maybe we could allow a "decorator" that would tell the planner the CTE
> could be inlined?
>
>     WITH INLINE mycte AS ( ...)

I'd rather reverse that so we behave like other implementations by
default, and have extension syntax for our no-inline query hint. And
yes, that's what it is, because we'd only inline when we could produce
semantically equivalent results anyway.

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