"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Evgen Potemkin has granted me a BSD license on the patch for hierarchical
> queries (WITH and CONNECT BY) and I'd like to get it on track for PostgreSQ=
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> 8.2. Tom, Bruce, Simon, Alvaro, Josh, et al., have you guys used the patch?
If this is the same patch that periodically burns Gentoo users, then yes,
we've seen it, and we were unimpressed.
> If so, what comments do you have as to what you'd like to see.
A rewrite from the ground up, and use of SQL-standard syntax (WITH etc)
not Oracle-proprietary.
regards, tom lane