Re: [HACKERS] Solution for LIMIT cost estimation

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, chris(at)bitmead(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Solution for LIMIT cost estimation
Date: 2000-02-11 16:41:11
Message-ID: 38A43BA7.7E172DB3@tm.ee
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"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote:
>
>
> the SQL3 draft that Chris pointed me at (Aug94) only mentions LIMIT as a
> limit clause of a RECURSIVE UNION, whatever that is. (No time to examine
> it right now) This is from the file sql-foundation-aug94.txt.
>

If I understood it right, RECURSIVE UNION is a way to query a tree
structured
table, whith parent_id's in each child row.

AFAIK even have it in the TODO list ;)

The LIMIT there probably limits how many levels down the tree are
queried.

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Hannu

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