Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> writes:
> Is there any reason why recursive SQL functions are not allowed in PG 7.2?
It's been discussed, cf
http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1038929
but no one got around to it for 7.2.
Aside from the forward-reference problem, which seems easy enough to
solve, I think there may be some performance issues that'd have to be
dealt with (memory leaks and so forth).
regards, tom lane