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A very good point, but it does not apply as here (and in my article)
we are not using updates, only insert and select.



On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brian Dunavant wrote on 13.01.2015 22:33:
>>
>> What issue are you having?  I'd imagine you have a race condition on
>> the insert into hometowns, but you'd have that same race condition in
>> your app code using a more traditional 3 query version as well.
>>
>> I often use CTEs like this to make things atomic.  It allows me to
>> remove transactional code out of the app and also to increase
>> performance by reducing the back-and-forth to the db.
>> http://omniti.com/seeds/writable-ctes-improve-performance
>>
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> Craig Ringer explained some of the pitfalls of this approach here:
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> http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/78510/why-is-cte-open-to-lost-updates
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> which is a follow up question based on this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/8702291/330315
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