In article <E6A0649F1FBFA3408A37F505400E7AC215CE69@email.attiksystem.ch>,
"Philippe Lang" <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> writes:
> Thanks for your answer. Si there a built-in function that would allow
> generating the sort path based on the value of the lookup column,
> instead of the id, which has no meaning at all?
> If yes, we would get instead:
> depth | id | lookup | parent_id
> -------+-----+--------+-----------
> 0 | 1 | a1 |
> 1 | 2 | b11 | 1
> 2 | 645 | c111 | 2
> 2 | 823 | c112 | 2
> 2 | 243 | c113 | 2
> 1 | 6 | b12 | 1
> 2 | 845 | c121 | 6
> 2 | 583 | c122 | 6
> 1 | 9 | b13 | 1
> 2 | 10 | c131 | 9
Try this:
WITH RECURSIVE parse_tree (depth, id, lookup, parent_id, path) AS ( SELECT 0, parent.id, parent.lookup,
parent.parent_id,parent.lookup::text FROM recursion AS parent WHERE parent_id IS NULL
UNION ALL SELECT parent.depth + 1, child.id, child.lookup, child.parent_id, parent.path || '.' || child.lookup
FROMparse_tree parent JOIN recursion AS child ON child.parent_id = parent.id
)
SELECT depth, id, lookup, parent_id
FROM parse_tree
ORDER BY path
