Palle Girgensohn <girgen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While you can do > > insert into foo (a, b) select a, b from bar; > > and > > delete from bar where a=1 returning a, b; > > it fails to run > > insert into foo (a, b) delete from bar where a=1 returning a, b; > > This is not what I would expect. Is there a reason for it not working? Yeah, it's a great feature, called writeable CTE, see here: http://akretschmer.blogspot.com/2009/11/writeable-cte-short-performance-test.html Unfortunately, the patch from Mirko Tiikkaja was rejected due to some technical problems. I'm waiting for 9.1 ... Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
