Hitoshi Harada <umi.tan...@gmail.com> writes:
> 2010/9/15 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Why is it so difficult to do this correctly?

> Because INSERT INTO ... (SELECT|VALUES) is already a collection of
> kludge (as comments say). It was possible to parse the two WITHs
> separately, but it results in ambiguous naming issue;
> parseWithClause() asserts there's only one WITH clause in the Stmt and
> detects duplicated CTE name in it.

Well, I would think that the no-duplication rule applies to each WITH
list separately, not both together.  If you do something like

with t1 as (select * from foo)
  select * from
    (with t2 as (select * from foo)
       select * from t1, t2) ss;

there's no expectation that the WITH clauses can't both define the same
name.

                        regards, tom lane

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