Re: BUG #18536: Using WITH inside WITH RECURSIVE triggers a "shouldn't happen" error - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Hi,

> > triggers an error:
> > ERROR:  XX000: missing recursive reference
> > LOCATION:  checkWellFormedRecursion, parse_cte.c:896
>
> FWIW I couldn't reproduce the reported error on REL_17_STABLE
> (b8bf76cbde39). The error I got seems reasonable:
>
> ```
> 46087 (master) =# WITH RECURSIVE t(n) AS (
>     WITH t1 AS (SELECT 1 FROM t) SELECT 1
>     UNION
>     SELECT 1 FROM t1)
> SELECT * FROM t;
> ERROR:  recursive reference to query "t" must not appear within a subquery
> LINE 2:     WITH t1 AS (SELECT 1 FROM t) SELECT 1
>                                       ^
> ```
>
> We should add regression tests though, as v2 does.

Oops. That's because Tom pushed this already (cf588e10f664). Sorry for
the noise.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev