Re: insert ... delete ... returning ... ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: insert ... delete ... returning ... ?
Date
Msg-id 200803032126.m23LQHs14939@momjian.us
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In response to Re: insert ... delete ... returning ... ?  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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Added to TODO:

* Allow INSERT ... DELETE ... RETURNING, namely allow the DELETE ... RETURNING to supply values to the INSERT
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/thrd2.php#00979

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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:
> >  > Not stupid, it doesn't work :)  This was a limitation of the original
> >  > design based on (IIRC) executor-related issues.
> >
> >  There are definitional issues not only implementation ones; in
> >  particular, in subquery-like cases it's entirely unclear how many times
> >  the DML operation will or should get evaluated.
> 
> Yup,that's what it was.  I think I remember the trigger-level and
> top-level executor-related stuff.  If I'm in that area of the code
> soon, I'll see how much would be involved and if I think I have enough
> time, submit a proposal for it.
> 
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