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ANSI SQL-99 SYNTAX and "WITH"

From
"Rein Petersen"
Date:
Good morning,afternoon, and evening Everyone,
 
My research into PostgreSQL documentation has yet to yeild any information about PostgreSQL's support of ANSI SQL-99 syntax, and in particular, the "WITH" clause - which if I understand correctly, allows recursive joins in simple syntax without the use of cursors and/or otherwise klugey SQL.
 
As you may have guessed, I hope PostgreSQL currently supports the "WITH" clause syntax or, will at least support it imminently.
 
Any knowledge on the matter is greatly appreciated :)
 
Rein

Re: ANSI SQL-99 SYNTAX and "WITH"

From
Yasir Malik
Date:
> Good morning,afternoon, and evening Everyone,
>
> My research into PostgreSQL documentation has yet to yeild any information about PostgreSQL's support of ANSI SQL-99
syntax,and in particular, the "WITH" clause - which if I understand correctly, allows recursive joins in simple syntax
withoutthe use of cursors and/or otherwise klugey SQL.
 
>
> As you may have guessed, I hope PostgreSQL currently supports the "WITH" clause syntax or, will at least support it
imminently.

No, PostgreSQL does not support the WITH clause.  I wanted to use the WITH
clause in an assignment, but I ended up using a view.  Maybe that will
work for you.

Yasir

Re: ANSI SQL-99 SYNTAX and "WITH"

From
Bruno Wolff III
Date:
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 15:37:41 -0400, Rein Petersen <rp2969@hotmail.com> wrote:
> My research into PostgreSQL documentation has yet to yeild any information about PostgreSQL's support of ANSI SQL-99
syntax,and in particular, the "WITH" clause - which if I understand correctly, allows recursive joins in simple syntax
withoutthe use of cursors and/or otherwise klugey SQL.
 
> 
> As you may have guessed, I hope PostgreSQL currently supports the "WITH" clause syntax or, will at least support it
imminently.

Postgres doesn't currently support that. Someone was working on it a while
back, but I haven't heard anything lately, so I don't know if some version
of it is going to be in the next release.

Re: ANSI SQL-99 SYNTAX and "WITH"

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
> Rein Petersen <rp2969@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> As you may have guessed, I hope PostgreSQL currently supports the
>> "WITH" clause syntax or, will at least support it imminently.

> Postgres doesn't currently support that. Someone was working on it a while
> back, but I haven't heard anything lately, so I don't know if some version
> of it is going to be in the next release.

Andrew Overholt was working on it awhile back.  I've been meaning to
pick up the pieces and see what I could do with it, but at this point
it's a pretty safe bet that it won't make 7.5.  Maybe next time.
        regards, tom lane