Ruslan A Dautkhanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's the patch ( http://gppl.terminal.ru/ ), which allow > PostgreSQL use queries like > connect by id = prior parent_id
Isn't this the same patch that we rejected a year or two back? > as described in SQL standard... AFAIK there is no such syntax in any version of the SQL standard. The syntax that *is* there in SQL99 uses "WITH" to achieve roughly the same results, but with much syntactic difference from Oracle. If you'd like to submit a patch that implements spec-compatible WITH, I can pass along some preliminary work that Andrew Overholt did at Red Hat. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster