Re: CTE inlining

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ilya Shkuratov <motr(dot)ilya(at)ya(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CTE inlining
Date: 2017-04-30 05:28:16
Message-ID: 20170430052816.n2j52g4za37emp2f@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-04-30 00:28:46 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> There's already a pretty large hill to climb here in the way of
> breaking peoples' expectations about CTEs being optimization
> fences. Breaking the documented semantics about CTEs being
> single-evaluation seems to me to be an absolute non-starter.

If all referenced functions are non-volatile, I don't quite see the
problem? Personally I believe we'll have to offer a proper
anti-inlining workaround anyway, and in that case there's really nothing
that should stop us from inlining CTE without volatile functions twice?

- Andres

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