Re: Combine non-recursive and recursive CTEs?

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-06-16T08:57:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Basically, I'd like to combine a recursive and a non-recursive CTE in
>> the same query.
>
> Just mark them all as recursive.  There's no harm in marking a CTE as
> recursive when it isn't really.

Hah. I could've sworn I tried that and got the typical error of "you
need to use the union construct for recursive queries". But clearly I
must've typoed something in that one, because when I did that over
again, it now worked perfectly...

Thanks!

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