Re: recursive queries - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: recursive queries
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Msg-id 21246.1056600924@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: recursive queries  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: recursive queries  (Andrew Overholt <overholt@redhat.com>)
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> Andrew Overholt of Red Hat has been working
>> on this, but is certainly not going to make the Tuesday feature-freeze
>> deadline.

> I was just wondering who was working on it and what the progress was...?  It
> seemed to me that it must have been hacked on for quite a long time now?

Andrew's had the usual quota of corporate demands on his time :-(.
Perhaps he'll weigh in here for himself, but I had thought right along
that getting it done for 7.4 was chancy.

> Also, are we getting DB2 or Oracle syntax?

SQL99-spec is the intention.  I believe this is much closer to DB2 than
to Oracle.
        regards, tom lane


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