Recursive CTE and multiple inserts in joined table - postgresql

Question

I'm searching to copy nodes of a hierarchical tree and to apply the changes onto a joined table. I found parts of the answer in other questions like Postgresql copy data within the tree table for the tree copy (in my case I only copy the children and not the root) and PostgreSQL - Insert data into multiple tables simultaneously to insert data in several table simultaneously, but I don't manage to mix them.
I would like to:
Generate the new nodes id from the fields table
Insert the new field ids in the data_versions table
Insert the new nodes in the fields table with the data_id from the data_versions table
Note: there is a circular reference between the fields and the data_versions tables.
See below the schema:
Here is a working query, but without the insert in the data_versions table. It is only a shallow copy (keeping the same data_id) while I would like a deep copy:
WITH created_data AS (
WITH RECURSIVE cte AS (
SELECT *, nextval('fields_id_seq') new_id FROM fields WHERE parent_id = :source_field_id
UNION ALL
SELECT fields.*, nextval('fields_id_seq') new_id FROM cte JOIN fields ON cte.id = fields.parent_id
)
SELECT C1.new_id, C1.name, C1.field_type, C1.data_id, C2.new_id new_parent_id
FROM cte C1 LEFT JOIN cte C2 ON C1.parent_id = C2.id
)
INSERT INTO fields (id, name, parent_id, field_type, data_id)
SELECT new_id, name, COALESCE(new_parent_id, :target_field_id), field_type, data_id FROM created_data
RETURNING id, name, parent_id, field_type, data_id;
And here is the draft query I'm working on for inserting data in the data_versions table resulting with WITH clause containing a data-modifying statement must be at the top level as an error:
WITH created_data AS (
WITH cloned_fields AS (
WITH RECURSIVE cte AS (
SELECT *, nextval('fields_id_seq') new_id FROM fields WHERE parent_id = :source_field_id
UNION ALL
SELECT fields.*, nextval('fields_id_seq') new_id FROM cte JOIN fields ON cte.id = fields.parent_id
)
SELECT C1.new_id, C1.name, C1.field_type, C1.data_id, C2.new_id new_parent_id
FROM cte C1 LEFT JOIN cte C2 ON C1.parent_id = C2.id
),
cloned_data AS (
INSERT INTO data_versions (value, author, field_id)
SELECT d.value, d.author, c.new_id
FROM cloned_fields c
INNER JOIN data_versions d ON c.data_id = d.id
RETURNING id data_id
)
SELECT cloned_fields.new_id, cloned_fields.name, cloned_fields.field_type, cloned_fields.new_parent_id, cloned_data.data_id
FROM cloned_fields
INNER JOIN cloned_data ON cloned_fields.data_id = cloned_data.id
)
INSERT INTO fields (id, name, parent_id, field_type, data_id)
SELECT new_id, name, COALESCE(new_parent_id, :target_field_id), field_type, data_id FROM created_data
RETURNING id, name, parent_id, field_type, data_id, value data;

Answer 1

If other people were encountering the same issue as me, I came up with this solution some months later. The trick was to move the data-modifying CTE at the top level as suggested by the error message. We can always access previously declared CTE's:
WITH new_fields_ids AS (
WITH RECURSIVE cte AS (
SELECT *, nextval('fields_id_seq') new_id FROM fields WHERE parent_id = :source_field_id
UNION ALL
SELECT fields.*, nextval('fields_id_seq') new_id FROM cte JOIN fields ON cte.id = fields.parent_id
)
SELECT C1.new_id, C1.name, C1.field_type, C1.data_id, C2.new_id new_parent_id
FROM cte C1 LEFT JOIN cte C2 ON C1.parent_id = C2.id
),
cloned_data AS (
INSERT INTO data_versions (value, author, field_id)
SELECT d.value, d.author, c.new_id
FROM new_fields_ids c
INNER JOIN data_versions d ON c.data_id = d.id
RETURNING id AS data_id, field_id, value
),
created_data AS (
SELECT new_fields_ids.new_id, new_fields_ids.name, new_fields_ids.field_type, new_fields_ids.new_parent_id, cloned_data.data_id
FROM new_fields_ids
INNER JOIN cloned_data ON new_fields_ids.new_id = cloned_data.field_id
),
cloned_fields AS (
INSERT INTO fields (id, name, parent_id, field_type, data_id)
SELECT new_id, name, COALESCE(new_parent_id, :target_field_id), field_type, data_id FROM created_data
RETURNING id, name, parent_id, field_type, data_id
)
SELECT f.id, f.name, f.parent_id, f.field_type, f.data_id, d.value AS data FROM cloned_fields f
INNER JOIN cloned_data d ON f.id = d.field_id;