Re: How to generate the order if you know the next item for each item?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Rockdale Green <rockdale(dot)green(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to generate the order if you know the next item for each item?
Date: 2021-08-03 16:22:19
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On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 8:40 AM Rockdale Green <rockdale(dot)green(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> can I do it in one query?
>

Yes.

> It might be just very simple and I have tried but somehow I am blocked.
>
>
The feature you need is a recursive CTE (WITH RECURSIVE clause). It
requires an initial row (which in this case is task 3, the only task that
doesn't appear as a task_order value) and a query to retrieve the next
row(s) using the information available in the previous iteration.

The documentation and/or online resources can walk you through the
specifics.

David J.

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