Re: recursive subquery

From: "Arnaud PERE" <arnaud(dot)mlist1(at)free(dot)fr>
To: "Sheer El-Showk" <sheer(at)saraf(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "Trinadh Kavuri" <tkavuri(at)saraf(dot)com>, "Neeran Saraf" <neeran(at)saraf(dot)com>
Subject: Re: recursive subquery
Date: 2002-04-24 06:22:25
Message-ID: 002c01c1eb58$694a2200$0100a8c0@arp.homelinux.org
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> I have a table with records that have a hierarchical relationship with one
> another. Some records are children of other records which in turn can be
> children of higher level records and so on until the highest level records
> are reached. This is a simple tree relationship. It's being represented
> by a second table with holds parentid-childid tuples so that to find the
> children of a particular parent one only has to scan the second table's
> first field for that given parent's id.
> ...

I think you hae several solutions : this is the emulation of the connect by oracle solution. You could try these links found at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2001-11/msg00438.php

| There are some in the PostgreSQL Cookbook
| (http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres) and Dan Wickstrom (from OpenACS.org)
| came up with one for OpenACS:
|
| http://openacs.org/new-file-storage/one-file?file_id=123

Good luck
Arnaud

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