Tom Lane wrote:
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Would it be a worth it for us to implement a non-standard simple syntax sugar on top of WITH RECURSIVE? Or, at least, something like CONNECT_BY()?

The Oracle syntax only *looks* simple.  When you start to study it
you realize that it's a horrid, messy kluge.

Yeah. I was actually thinking more of something like:

<table_identifier> RECURSIVE JOIN ON <column_expression> <operator> <column_expression>

... which would be a pretty good simplest-case syntax.

When I mentioned connect_by() I was referring to Joe's function, not Oracle's syntax, which I think is awful.

--Josh


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