Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Marko Tiikkaja
> <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> 1) WITH t AS
>> (UPDATE foo SET bar = bar+1 RETURNING *)
>> SELECT * FROM t LIMIT 1;
>>
>> What's problematic here is that only 1 row is read from the CTE, meaning
>> also that only one row is updated which, at least how I see it, is not
>> what we want. The CTE should only store one row and return that after
>> it has completely processed the UPDATE statement.
>>
>
> i'm talking from my ignorance... but AFAIU this should process the
> whole UPDATE and then form a WorkTable with the results...
> what the select reads from that results is another thing...
>
Right. This is exactly what I'm trying to do, except I think we could
easily optimize this case and store only the first processed row inside
the CTE.
Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja
