Re: START WITH and CONNECT BY - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: START WITH and CONNECT BY
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Msg-id 200504101812.18032.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to START WITH and CONNECT BY  ("Stephen Schwenker" <saschwen@schwenker.org>)
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Stephan,

> Has anyone considdered adding the START WITH and CONNECT BY functionallity
> that Oracle has.  I've been developing for many years now and I find that
> almost every application we build requires some kind of hierarchical
> structure.  I know there are other ways of accomplishing this in
> Postgresql, but I've always found it to be more work than using something
> simple like the Oracle START WITH/CONNECT BY clause.

From http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/TODO.html
   *  Add SQL99 WITH RECURSIVE to SELECT

.... any further discussion should go on PGSQL-SQL list.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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