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