Re: wCTE behaviour - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: wCTE behaviour
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Msg-id 20101221212000.GF9857@fetter.org
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In response to Re: wCTE behaviour  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: wCTE behaviour  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:14:31PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On sön, 2010-11-14 at 04:45 +0200, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> > On 2010-11-12 8:25 PM +0200, I wrote:
> > > I'm going to take some time off this weekend to get a patch with this
> > > behaviour to the next commitfest.
> > 
> > .. and a wild patch appears.
> > 
> > This is almost exactly the patch from 2010-02 without 
> > CommandCounterIncrement()s.  It's still a bit rough around the edges and 
> > needs some more comments, but I'm posting it here anyway.
> 
> To pick up an earlier thread again, has any serious thought been given
> to adapting the SQL2001/DB2 syntax instead of our own?

Yes, and it's a good deal more limited and less intuitive than ours.

This is one place where we got it right and the standard just got
pushed into doing whatever IBM did.

Cheers,
David.
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