Re: 7.4 Wishlist
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-12-01T05:55:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes: > - possibly enhanced connectby functionality (may not be worth it if > RECURSIVE JOIN functionality makes it into 7.4) Several of my Red Hat cohorts are pretty interested in making the RECURSIVE query stuff work for 7.4. (The fact that they're ex-DB2 folk might explain their preference for the SQL99 syntax, nee DB2 syntax, over Oracle's CONNECT BY ... but I'm with them ;-(. Oracle's recursive-join syntax is nearly as bad as their outer-join syntax.) regards, tom lane