On 2019-01-18 15:34:46 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:48 AM Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> wrote:
> > On 1/11/19 8:10 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > WITH cte_name [[NOT] MATERIALIZED] AS (query) main_query...
> >
> > Hm, when would one want "NOT MATERIALIZED"? I am not sure I see the
> > usefulness of forcing inlining other than if we by default do not inline
> > when a CTE is referenced multiple times.
>
> When the planner materializes it, but the performance of the resulting
> plan therefore sucks, I suppose.
>
> I don't feel super-strongly about this, and Tom is right that there
> may be cases where materialization is just not practical due to
> implementation restrictions.
*not* materializing I assume?
Greetings,
Andres Freund