Re: WIP: Hierarchical Queries - stage 1

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> The main problem I can see with keeping the CTEs outside the rangetable
> is that according to the source, jointree nodes must currently have
> RANGETBLREF nodes as leaf nodes; as I understand it, your suggestion of
> maintaining the CTEs separately would involve something along the lines
> of keeping a separate CTETable and creating some form of CTETBLREF node
> that could be referenced within the jointree.

No, what I'm thinking is that a *reference* to a CTE, from within the
main query's FROM list, would create a "CTERef" RTE and then you'd have
a normal RANGETBLREF node linking to that in the jointree.  This solves
the problem of where do you put the alias: on the RTE.  What's not clear
to me at this point is whether there can be multiple references in a
query to the same CTE --- if there can, I suspect you must have a data
structure like this.

			regards, tom lane