Re: Q: Tree traversal with SQL query?

From: Alban Hertroys <alban(at)magproductions(dot)nl>
To: Adrian von Bidder <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Q: Tree traversal with SQL query?
Date: 2007-06-15 08:49:44
Message-ID: 467252A8.5060505@magproductions.nl
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Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to do tree traversal with only one SQL query (no
> procedure/function)?
>
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> node INTEGER,
> parent INTEGER REFERENCES foo(node)
> );
>
> Ideally the output would be a depth-first tree traversal starting at root
> (marked by parent == node, for example.)
>
> Obviously, I can do this with "normal" programming and loops, but it bugged
> me a while if its at all possible doing this in one query.

Have a look at contrib/ltree ;)

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