Re: Remove restrictions in recursive query

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Renan Alves Fonseca <renanfonseca(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Remove restrictions in recursive query
Date: 2025-03-27 16:39:55
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaD_hd-siBn4ROiXCZC=B0MasPDE2fisYD8SOOGWdE-Eg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> It's not a problem if UNION ALL is used within the initial_query and
> it's not a problem if UNION ALL is used within the iterated_query. But
> you can't apply ORDER BY to the result of the UNION, because the UNION
> is kind of fake -- we're not running the UNION as a single query,
> we're running the two halves separately, the first once and the second
> as many times as needed.

Oops. The two UNION ALL references in the first part of this paragraph
should have said ORDER BY.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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