Re: START WITH and CONNECT BY

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Stephen Schwenker" <saschwen(at)schwenker(dot)org>
Cc: <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: START WITH and CONNECT BY
Date: 2005-04-11 01:12:18
Message-ID: 200504101812.18032.josh@agliodbs.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-advocacy

Stephan,

> Has anyone considdered adding the START WITH and CONNECT BY functionallity
> that Oracle has.  I've been developing for many years now and I find that
> almost every application we build requires some kind of hierarchical
> structure.  I know there are other ways of accomplishing this in
> Postgresql, but I've always found it to be more work than using something
> simple like the Oracle START WITH/CONNECT BY clause.

From http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/TODO.html
* Add SQL99 WITH RECURSIVE to SELECT

.... any further discussion should go on PGSQL-SQL list.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

In response to

Browse pgsql-advocacy by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Robert Treat 2005-04-11 13:13:00 Re: START WITH and CONNECT BY
Previous Message Chris Travers 2005-04-10 18:05:07 Re: Name that project contest!]