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mediumSQLCTEs WITHSingle-choice MCQ

Is a non-recursive CTE in PostgreSQL guaranteed to be evaluated exactly once and its result reused if referenced multiple times in the outer query?

WITH heavy AS ( SELECT * FROM big_table WHERE expensive_predicate(x) ) SELECT * FROM heavy a JOIN heavy b ON a.id = b.parent_id;