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From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Connect By for 8.0
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In response to Re: Connect By for 8.0  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Responses Re: Connect By for 8.0  (Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at>)
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Robert Treat wrote:
> Actually i believe people want both syntax's as the former is used by oracle 
> and the latter by db2 (iirc)

I think the past consensus has been to adopt the SQL standard syntax. Is 
there any reason to also support the Oracle syntax other than for 
compatibility? (And if that is it, I think it's a pretty flimsy reason.)

-Neil

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