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by typ 506 days ago
Here is a contrived example:

    CREATE MACRO foo(bar, baz) AS TABLE
    WITH
        base AS (
            FROM query_table(bar) t
        ),
        refined AS (
            FROM base
            JOIN query_table(baz) u ON base.id = u.id
        )
    SELECT * FROM refined;
I want to test many user-defined combinations of (bar, baz). How can I pass a macro instance to query_table like

    FROM (
        (FROM foo(mybar1(some_arg1, some_arg2), mybaz101(500)))
        UNION ALL
        (FROM foo(mybar2(some_arg3, some_arg4), mybaz201(300)))
        UNION ALL
        ...
    )
    SELECT *;
Your second example using the 'query_macro' looks like something I was looking for. But it doesn't seem to be of general use that supports an arbitrary number of arguments.
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  FROM (
        (with
          baz as (from baz101(500)),
          bar as (from bar1(arg1, arg2))
          from foo
        )
        UNION ALL
        (with
          baz as (from baz201(300)),
          bar as (from bar2(arg3, arg4))
          from foo
        )
        UNION ALL
        ...
    )
    SELECT *;
When you pass table arguments to a macro, don't pass them as a parameter to the macro, instead make a subquery and give it the name that `foo` expects.
Not as terse as I imagined it could be, but I really didn't expect that it could be done this way. Thanks!