> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:57:04PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > > No idea.  What do you think if we allow only one query name at the
> > > > moment.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure I understand what that has to do with sorting.
> > > 
> > > Please find attached a place where I've found some problems sorting by
> > > tree by array as Asaba-san suggested.
> > 
> > Humm. your problem seems to do nothing with the problem I refer to.
> 
> Sorry about that.  Is my problem reproducible?  Is there maybe some
> way to include regression tests around it?

According to Asaba, it's not a bug with recursive query. In another
word, the query result you are getting is the expected one. Asaba?

> > What I have in my mind is something like:
> > 
> > WITH RECURSIVE foo(a, b) AS
> > (SELECT ... UNION SELECT...),
> > 
> > bar(c, d) AS
> > (SELECT ... FROM foo WHERE ...UNION...)
> > )
> > SELECT * FROM foo;
> > 
> > In this there are two query names (foo, bar) and we need to detect the
> > dependency that bar relies on foo before processing the query.
> 
> I think mutually recursive queries may have been dropped from
> SQL:2008.

I'm pretty sure that SQL:2008 has mutually recursive queries(I have
the final draft of SQL:2008 here).

> > However, as I said earlier, this kind of use case would be rare in
> > the real world, and I'd like to limit ourselves to having only one
> > query name at the moment.
> > 
> > Also I suggest to concentrate on reviewing the WITH RECURSIVE
> > implementation itself now, rather than discussing how to use git
> > repository or how to write an interesting WITH RECURSIVE
> > applications.
> > 
> > Don't get me wrong. I believe git is a great tool. But we have
> > limited time and need to think about the priority.
> 
> Fair enough :)
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
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