Re: Anything like Oracle's "connect by" SQL?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tim Wright <postgresql(at)icehawk(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Anything like Oracle's "connect by" SQL?
Date: 2003-10-02 05:47:08
Message-ID: 200310012247.08606.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> There's not a whole lot of interest around here in emulating Oracle's
> proprietary CONNECT BY syntax. Some work has been done towards
> implementing the SQL99 standard's features for "recursive queries"
> (WITH et al), but it's unfinished work as of 7.4.

But we have CONNECT_BY as a function, thanks to Joe Conway.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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