Re: Limits of SQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joachim Zobel
Subject Re: Limits of SQL
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Msg-id 1117914805.4405.16.camel@localhost
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In response to Re: Limits of SQL  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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Am Samstag, den 04.06.2005, 07:38 -0500 schrieb Bruno Wolff III:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 11:31:02 +0200,
>   Joachim Zobel <jzobel@heute-morgen.de> wrote:
> >
> > ... And it seems that
> > a plain SELECT that tells me if a path exists is not possible...
>
> When 'WITH' gets implemented then you should be able to do this. I think
> there was some recent talk about that, but I don't know if it is going to
> make it in to 8.1. We'll know in about a month though.

So WITH will allow recursion so I can walk the graph, right? Does this
mean I can recursively join until a terminating condition is reached?

Sincerely,
Joachim



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