Re: [SQL] INSERT INTO...RETURNING vs SELECT

2010-04-05 Thread Andreas Kretschmer 
Cliff Wells  wrote:

> As far as I can see, INSERT INTO...RETURNING is semantically equivalent
> to SELECT...FROM with a side-effect, so it seems this construct should
> work.  Can someone shed some light?

Well, at the moment you can't reuse the RETURNING-values, you have to
wait for 9.1, writeable CTE.


Andreas
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Re: [SQL] INSERT INTO...RETURNING vs SELECT

2010-04-05 Thread Cliff Wells 
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 09:10 +0200, Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
> Cliff Wells  wrote:
> 
> > As far as I can see, INSERT INTO...RETURNING is semantically equivalent
> > to SELECT...FROM with a side-effect, so it seems this construct should
> > work.  Can someone shed some light?
> 
> Well, at the moment you can't reuse the RETURNING-values, you have to
> wait for 9.1, writeable CTE.

Thanks, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding something.

Regards,
Cliff


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