Re: WITH RECURSIVE question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: WITH RECURSIVE question
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Msg-id 20120713104749.GA13530@tux
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In response to WITH RECURSIVE question  ("Marc Mamin" <M.Mamin@intershop.de>)
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Marc Mamin <M.Mamin@intershop.de> wrote:

> WITH RECURSIVE struc (pref, id, depth ) AS (
>   SELECT '', node, 1 from forest where node= 4
>   UNION ALL
>   SELECT (case when struc.pref= '' then '\' else struc.pref end )||
> '...' ,
>          node,
>          struc.depth +1
>   FROM forest JOIN struc ON parent=struc.id
>   )
>   SELECT * FROM struc;
>
>  (path,node,depth)
>            4  1
>   \...     5  2
>   \......  6  3
>
> This is fine as long as I start with a given node (here node= 4).
>
> But How can I retrieve the complete structure in one query ?

Start with parent is null in the first query (instead of 'where
node=4').

*untested*


Andreas
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