On Jan 13, 2006, at 23:27 , Shawn Garbett wrote:
> In oracle there is the idea of group by functions,
> i.e. cube and rollup that are very useful for
> reporting. I've not found an equivalent in PostgreSQL.
> What's the status of this? Can I write my own?
As far as I know, CUBE and ROLLUP haven't been implemented into
PostgreSQL.
> Connect by Prior is a recursive query function for
> navigating tree data structures in oracle, i.e A Table
> that has many of itself. Is there any equivalent in
> PostgreSQL?
Check out tablefunc in the contrib directory. (contrib/tablefunc) I
believe that should do what you want.
Hope this helps.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com
