Re: "writable CTEs" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: "writable CTEs"
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Msg-id 1293546926.9478.1.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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In response to Re: "writable CTEs"  (Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: "writable CTEs"  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: "writable CTEs"  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Re: "writable CTEs"  (Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>)
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On tis, 2010-12-28 at 00:19 +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.

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.



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