Re: [HACKERS] Mapping MERGE onto CTEs (Re: MERGE SQL Statement for PG11)

2017-11-02 Thread Craig Ringer
On 2 November 2017 at 01:14, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Nico Williams wrote: > >> As an aside, I'd like to be able to control which CTEs are view-like and >> which are table-like. In SQLite3, for example, they are all view-like, >> and the optimizer will act accordingly, whereas in PG they are all >

Re: [HACKERS] Mapping MERGE onto CTEs (Re: MERGE SQL Statement for PG11)

2017-11-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Nico Williams wrote: > As an aside, I'd like to be able to control which CTEs are view-like and > which are table-like. In SQLite3, for example, they are all view-like, > and the optimizer will act accordingly, whereas in PG they are all > table-like, and thus optimizer barriers. There was a sho

[HACKERS] Mapping MERGE onto CTEs (Re: MERGE SQL Statement for PG11)

2017-11-01 Thread Nico Williams
Is it possible to map MERGE onto a query with CTEs that does the the various DMLs, with all but the last RETURNING? Here's a sketch: WITH matched_rows AS ( SELECT FROM t WHERE ), updated_rows AS ( UPDATE t SET ... WHERE ... AND t in (SELECT j FROM matc