Re: programming in pgsql

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:13:12AM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Angshu Kar wrote:
> >Hi Pgsql,
> >
> >Could anyone please advise whether the following program can be implemented
> >using pgsql cursors/anythign else (or do we need some external scripts)?If
> >yes, could you give please some function names etc?
> [snip series of queries]
>
> Any procedural language will be able to handle this.
> The only problem you'll have will be that the whole function will take
> place inside a single transaction, so you won't be able to spread the
> workload out over time.

There are also other ways to do this. Celko presents one in "SQL For
Smarties" based on setting up a graph (google:sql for smarties graph),
and there is also contrib/ltree. Either of these is likely to perform
much better than a heirarchy, unless you're doing a lot of
inserts/updates/deletes (graphs) or need a lot of levels (ltree).
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