Re: Using results from INSERT ... RETURNING - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Using results from INSERT ... RETURNING
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Msg-id 20091004172439.GE4964@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Using results from INSERT ... RETURNING  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Using results from INSERT ... RETURNING  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:16:50PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi> writes:
> > If I understood you correctly, this would imply that you wouldn't
> > be able to do for example:
> 
> > INSERT INTO foo
> > WITH t AS ( DELETE FROM bar RETURNING * )
> > SELECT * FROM t;
> 
> Um ... forget what I said --- not enough caffeine yet, apparently.
> 
> Yeah, rewrite rules are going to be a *serious* stumbling block to
> this whole concept.

> Maybe we should just punt the project until we have a clear idea of
> how to do that.

Maybe rewrite rules just don't fit with this feature, and should cause
an error.  We have other things that don't work together, and the
world hasn't ended yet.

This leads me to another Modest Proposal, which I'll detail in another
post.

Cheers,
David.
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