Re: WITH support

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Edwin Ramirez <edwin(dot)ramirez(at)mssm(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WITH support
Date: 2006-12-29 12:53:50
Message-ID: 20061229125350.GA3332@fetter.org
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 10:52:45PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Edwin Ramirez wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is the status of supporting the "WITH" keyword?
>
> I see these TODO items:
>
> * Add SQL99 WITH clause to SELECT
> * Add SQL:2003 WITH RECURSIVE (hierarchical) queries to SELECT
>
> Are they the same item?

Not exactly. There is a WITH in the SQL:2003 spec (T121 and T122)
which doesn't include RECURSIVE, but they're related to the RECURSIVE
one (T131).

> Someone has said they will do RECURSIVE for 8.3, but there is no
> guarantee.

Is there code for this yet? Who's the someone? :)

Cheers,
D
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