On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:30:52PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Quoth tmp <skrald@amossen.dk>:
> > Are there any plans on implementing support for recursive queries in
> > postgresql in the near future? If so: When?
> >
> > I can see there has been some discussion on the subject in the
> > developer-group for quite some time ago, but aparently all thoughts
> > of recursive queries has been stalled. :-(
>
> Other things have headed higher in terms of urgency.
>
> If someone volunteers to work on it, or if someone sponsors someone to
> work on it, that would doubtless increase its priority for 8.1 or
> such.
>
> I'd love to see it; the syntax provides ways to make complex queries a
> lot cleaner even if you're not recursing.
Depending on what you're doing you could also use contrib/ltree instead
of a recursive query.
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