Re: Prent-Child relationships in SQL

Read the docs on "connectby" function provided by "tablefunc" contrib
module.

Igor

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From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Gibson
Chimhamhiwa
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 7:43 AM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [ADMIN] Prent-Child relationships in SQL

Hi All,

I have a simple table below and I want to be able to write a SQL select
query that returns the grouping_ids until I get no more children. The
parent_grouping_id column is the parent to the grouping_id child column.
Can somebody please advise me how I can do this in postgreSQL.

CREATE TABLE grouping
(
grouping_id int4 NOT NULL,
version int4,
parent_grouping_id int4,
topic_topic_id int4,
CONSTRAINT grouping_pkey PRIMARY KEY (grouping_id),
CONSTRAINT fk1e2e9d036852722d FOREIGN KEY (topic_topic_id)
REFERENCES topic (topic_id) MATCH SIMPLE
ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION,
CONSTRAINT fk1e2e9d03a1bfbfe FOREIGN KEY (topic_topic_id)
REFERENCES topic (topic_id) MATCH SIMPLE
ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION,
CONSTRAINT fk1e2e9d03cdaf7222 FOREIGN KEY (parent_grouping_id)
REFERENCES grouping (grouping_id) MATCH SIMPLE
ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION
)
WITHOUT OIDS;
ALTER TABLE grouping OWNER TO napdba;

Thanks In Advance.