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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Connectby blues
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In response to Connectby blues  (Mladen Gogala <mgogala@vmsinfo.com>)
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Mladen Gogala <mgogala@vmsinfo.com> writes:
> My question, however is the following: why is "connectby" needed at
> all?

It isn't.  It's there because it was there first --- we only added WITH
in 8.4.  If you can persuade your Oracle guy to convert to the
SQL-standard syntax, by all means use that instead.

            regards, tom lane

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