Re: WITH RECURSIVE ... simplified syntax?

Hello

2008/10/9 Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>:
> All,
>
> I was discussing WITH RECURSIVE the other day, and realized that one thing
> which we're not getting with this patch is a simplest-case simple syntax
> which 75% of users are looking for. You know, the ones with simple
> proximity trees who just want to find all children of one parent.
>

I thing so it's bad understanding of new syntax. It's really power and
easy, but it minimally needs look to manual. I am against to add some
non standard syntax, when we have standard.

regards
Pavel Stehule

p.s. CONNECT by should help to people with migration of older
application from DB2 or Oracle

> Would it be a worth it for us to implement a non-standard simple syntax
> sugar on top of WITH RECURSIVE? Or, at least, something like
> CONNECT_BY()?
>
> --
> --Josh
>
> Josh Berkus
> PostgreSQL
> San Francisco
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