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

From David Fetter
Subject Re: "writable CTEs"
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Msg-id 20101228022820.GD25421@fetter.org
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In response to Re: "writable CTEs"  (Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: "writable CTEs"  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:19:47AM +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.

Agreed.

> Is there interest in correcting this, by putting "CTEs" or "Common
> table expressions" in parenthesis after "WITH queries" in the docs
> at certain select places? I could write a documentation patch.

+1 :)

Cheers,
David.
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