Re: CONNECT BY PRIOR - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: CONNECT BY PRIOR
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Msg-id 27691.1131809654@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to CONNECT BY PRIOR  (Yann Michel <yann-postgresql@spline.de>)
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Yann Michel <yann-postgresql@spline.de> writes:
> I'm just a little bit confused because I expected postgresql to be able
> t "connect by prior" but as I have seen it is not. :-(
> Are there any plans to support this in the main distribution?

There's some work being done to implement the SQL-standard recursive
WITH feature, which is able to solve the same problems as CONNECT BY.
There's not a whole lot of interest in adopting Oracle's non-standard
syntax ...
        regards, tom lane


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