can't use JOIN with generate_series on Redshift

Question

generate_series function on Redshift works as expected, when used in a simple select statement.

WITH series AS (
    SELECT n as id from generate_series (-10, 0, 1) n
) SELECT * FROM series;
-- Works fine

As soon as I add a JOIN condition, redshift throws

com.amazon.support.exceptions.ErrorException: Function generate_series(integer,integer,integer)" not supported"

DROP TABLE testing;
CREATE TABLE testing (
  id INT
);
WITH series AS (
  SELECT n as id from generate_series (-10, 0, 1) n
) SELECT * FROM series S JOIN testing T ON S.id = T.id;
-- Function "generate_series(integer,integer,integer)" not supported.

Redshift Version

SELECT version();
-- PostgreSQL 8.0.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3), Redshift 1.0.1485

Are there any workarounds to make this work?

Answer 1

generate_series is not supported by Redshift. It works only standalone on a leader node.

A workaround would be using row_number against any table that has sufficient number of rows:

with 
series as (
    select (row_number() over ())-11 from some_table limit 10
) ...

also, this question was asked multiple times already