Re: How to generate the order if you know the next item for each item? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: How to generate the order if you know the next item for each item?
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On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 8:40 AM Rockdale Green <rockdale.green@gmail.com> wrote:
 can I do it in one query? 

Yes.
It might be just very simple and I have tried but somehow I am blocked. 


The feature you need is a recursive CTE (WITH RECURSIVE clause).  It requires an initial row (which in this case is task 3, the only task that doesn't appear as a task_order value) and a query to retrieve the next row(s) using the information available in the previous iteration.

The documentation and/or online resources can walk you through the specifics.

David J.

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