Re: Connectby blues

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mladen Gogala <mgogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Connectby blues
Date: 2010-05-20 17:46:49
Message-ID: 6240.1274377609@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mladen Gogala <mgogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com> writes:
> My question, however is the following: why is "connectby" needed at
> all?

It isn't. It's there because it was there first --- we only added WITH
in 8.4. If you can persuade your Oracle guy to convert to the
SQL-standard syntax, by all means use that instead.

regards, tom lane

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