=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> Does this patch have a serious chance to make it into Pg some day?
> I think Oracle's syntax is not perfect but is easy to handle and many
> people are used to it. In people's mind recursive queries = CONNECT BY
> and many people (like me) miss it sadly.
I would prefer to see us supporting the SQL-standard syntax (WITH etc),
as it is (1) standard and (2) more flexible than CONNECT BY. The Red
Hat work mentioned earlier in the thread was aimed at supporting the
standard syntax.
regards, tom lane