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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/queries-with.html
Description:
I believe that the second query in section 7.8.2 (Recursive Queries) should
be modified to properly account for quantities. In the recursive term,
p.quantity should be multiplied by pr.quantity:
WITH RECURSIVE included_parts(sub_part, part, quantity) AS (
SELECT sub_part, part, quantity FROM parts WHERE part = 'our_product'
UNION ALL
SELECT p.sub_part, p.part, p.quantity * pr.quantity
FROM included_parts pr, parts p
WHERE p.part = pr.sub_part
)
SELECT sub_part, SUM(quantity) as total_quantity
FROM included_parts
GROUP BY sub_part
As currently written, if a car has four wheels, and each wheel has five
bolts, the whole example returns five bolts for the parts of a car. With the
proposed change, it will return 20 bolts.
