> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:15 PM, David Johnston <pol...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I could maybe see something like the following having some value:
> >
> > SELECT inverse
> > FROM data
> > WHERE x<>0 AND inverse > .5
> > MACRO inverse (1/x)
> >
> 
> WITH macros AS (SELECT *,1/x AS inverse FROM data) SELECT inverse FROM
> macros WHERE x<>0 AND inverse > .5
> 

In your example the "macro" has to either be attached directly to the FROM
or be used as part of a sub-select; it is not a text substitution macro at
all.  The pre-processor upon encountering a macro, would simply replace all
identifiers (at the same level in the query) with "(expression)".

David J.




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