Re: recursive view syntax

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 23:44 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > I noticed we don't implement the recursive view syntax, even though it's
> > part of the standard SQL feature set for recursive queries.  Here is a
> > patch to add that.
> 
> Can't you simplify that by using "SELECT * FROM name"?

You mean in the expansion?

Maybe, but SELECT * is perhaps something best avoided because of unclear
side effects.