On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Yeb Havinga <yebhavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-11-14 19:35, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Marko Tiikkaja
>> <marko.tiikk...@cs.helsinki.fi>  wrote:
>>>
>>> In my opinion, all of these should have the same effect: DELETE all rows
>>> from "foo".  Any other option means we're going to have trouble
>>> predicting
>>> how a query is going to behave.
>>
>> I think it's clear that's the only sensible behavior.
>
> What if CTE's ever get input parameters?

Then they'd be functions, which we already have.  As Tom recently
pointed out, you can even make them temporary with an explicit pg_temp
schema qualification.  Perhaps someday we'll have lambda-expressions,
but I have no reason to believe that they'll use any of the wCTE
syntax.

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