On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:19:19PM -0700, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On 1/3/07, Hubert FONGARNAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Why not looking at http://gppl.moonbone.ru/ evgen potemkin. has > >ever made a patch for WITH and CONNECT BY? > > Nope, no good. This is what I started with last time and the > refactoring attempt at WITH is just too massive. As for CONNECT BY, > PostgreSQL does not want the syntax, they want ANSI/ISO WITH > [RECURSIVE]... so even starting there isn't great. > > This is really something that needs to be decided on before > implementation... or it will probably never get in.
As I recall, it was decided long ago, and the conclusions were: * Only BSD-compatibly licensed code goes in PostgreSQL's code base, and * PostgreSQL will only support the SQL:2003 standard WITH (RECURSIVE) syntax in the main line code. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
