Re: recursive queries

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: recursive queries
Date: 2003-06-26 04:15:24
Message-ID: 21246.1056600924@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> Andrew Overholt of Red Hat has been working
>> on this, but is certainly not going to make the Tuesday feature-freeze
>> deadline.

> I was just wondering who was working on it and what the progress was...? It
> seemed to me that it must have been hacked on for quite a long time now?

Andrew's had the usual quota of corporate demands on his time :-(.
Perhaps he'll weigh in here for himself, but I had thought right along
that getting it done for 7.4 was chancy.

> Also, are we getting DB2 or Oracle syntax?

SQL99-spec is the intention. I believe this is much closer to DB2 than
to Oracle.

regards, tom lane

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