Re: Writeable CTEs and side effects

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Robert Haas  wrote:
> up to the main query.  For what may turn out to be pretty common uses
> cases like WITH tuples AS (DELETE FROM big_table_1 RETURNING ...)
> INSERT INTO big_table_2 ... this is going to suck pretty bad.  I

Is the above form:

with x as (delete .. returning *) insert into y select * from x

going to be allowed?  I was informed on irc that it wasn't...it would
have to be written as:

insert into y with x as (delete .. returning *) select * from x

IOW, will WITH be able to terminate in update/insert/delete and not just select?

merlin