Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> My thought is that we could optimize away materialization in cases where >> we can tell it's not needed (no volatile functions and/or no multiple >> scans of the subquery). But not being able to do it means we've >> implemented the feature incorrectly.
> I'm not sure how much work that would involve, but none of this means we > can't have the feature for 8.4, right? Just that there is more work to do. I would be *extremely* surprised if we don't find ourselves improving the optimization of WITH clauses long after 8.4. We're still working on outer joins, remember ;-). My point here is just that the base case before optimization has to behave per spec. Optimizing more later is good, fixing deliberately introduced non-compliance not so good. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers