On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 15:37:41 -0400,
Rein Petersen <rp2969(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> My research into PostgreSQL documentation has yet to yeild any information about PostgreSQL's support of ANSI SQL-99 syntax, and in particular, the "WITH" clause - which if I understand correctly, allows recursive joins in simple syntax without the use of cursors and/or otherwise klugey SQL.
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> As you may have guessed, I hope PostgreSQL currently supports the "WITH" clause syntax or, will at least support it imminently.
Postgres doesn't currently support that. Someone was working on it a while
back, but I haven't heard anything lately, so I don't know if some version
of it is going to be in the next release.