Re: Recursive Queries - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Recursive Queries
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Msg-id 200701241855.l0OIt8I06013@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Recursive Queries  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Gregory Stark wrote:
> > I'm looking into recursive queries and what it would take to support them in
> > Postgres. Is anyone else looking at this already?
> >
> > Aside from the Oracle-ish syntax were there other objections to the patch as
> > posted a while back for 7.3 by Evgen Potemkin?
> >
> > I have some ideas myself for how to go about this but I'm going to review the
> > existing patch first. If anyone else has ideas I would like to hear them.
> >
> >   
> 
> My recollection is that the verdict was that it was clode to 100% 
> unusable - you might want to review the past discussions.

Yes, the old patch is unusasble.  The change has to be done in a
different part of the code.

> Wasn't somebody else working on this? Jonah? (Maybe you EDB guys need to 
> talk more ...)

He is taking it over for Jonah.

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