Greg Stark <st...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm not too thrilled about that solution because it still eliminates
>> predictability of execution of volatile functions.
> How so? It means the volatile function might only be executed for the
> matching rows
Exactly. If the point of the CTE is to ensure that nextval() is
executed N times, and it actually gets executed less than that,
then we've broken the semantics in a visible way.
regards, tom lane
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