Re: Hierarchical queries a la Oracle patch. for 7.3rc1.

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > This is a pretty sizable patch, and there was discussion about it. Tom,
> > are you saying you will apply it with different syntax, or that you will
> > do another implementation.
>
> A new implementation --- I don't think this is usable as is (at least
> not the parser part; I haven't studied the executor part closely yet).
> For one thing, it ignores the agreed-on TODO items:
> * Add SQL99 WITH clause to SELECT
> * Add SQL99 WITH RECURSIVE to SELECT
>
> We had the RHDB project meeting today and agreed that we'd work on this
> (among other things) for 7.4. You can put down Fernando Nasser and me
> as the responsible developers for these TODO items.

OK, TODO updated:

> * Add SQL99 WITH clause to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)
> * Add SQL99 WITH RECURSIVE to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)

and Fernando's name was added to the bottom of TODO.

OK, now who wants to tell Evgen? Have we been fair with him?

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