Thread: Proposal of hierarchical queries, a la Oracle

Hi there!

I want to propose the patch for adding the hierarchical queries posibility.
It allows to construct queries a la Oracle for ex:
SELECT a,b FROM t CONNECT BY a PRIOR b START WITH cond;B

I've seen this type of queries often made by adding a new type, which stores
position of row in the tree. But sorting such tree are very tricky (i
think).

Patch allows result tree to be sorted, i.e. subnodes of each node will be
sorted by ORDER BY clause.

with regards, evgen

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.evgen

Was there supposed to be a patch attached to this email?

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Evgen Potemkin
> Sent: Friday, 15 November 2002 5:38 PM
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [HACKERS] Proposal of hierarchical queries, a la Oracle
> 
> 
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> I want to propose the patch for adding the hierarchical queries 
> posibility.
> It allows to construct queries a la Oracle for ex:
> SELECT a,b FROM t CONNECT BY a PRIOR b START WITH cond;B
> 
> I've seen this type of queries often made by adding a new type, 
> which stores
> position of row in the tree. But sorting such tree are very tricky (i
> think).
> 
> Patch allows result tree to be sorted, i.e. subnodes of each node will be
> sorted by ORDER BY clause.
> 
> with regards, evgen
> 
> ---
> .evgen
> 
> 
> 
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