| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Hubert FONGARNAND <informatique(dot)internet(at)fiducial(dot)fr>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Edwin Ramirez <edwin(dot)ramirez(at)mssm(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: WITH support |
| Date: | 2007-01-03 23:23:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20070103232333.GI28334@fetter.org |
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:19:19PM -0700, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Hubert FONGARNAND <informatique(dot)internet(at)fiducial(dot)fr> wrote:
> >Why not looking at http://gppl.moonbone.ru/ evgen potemkin. has
> >ever made a patch for WITH and CONNECT BY?
>
> Nope, no good. This is what I started with last time and the
> refactoring attempt at WITH is just too massive. As for CONNECT BY,
> PostgreSQL does not want the syntax, they want ANSI/ISO WITH
> [RECURSIVE]... so even starting there isn't great.
>
> This is really something that needs to be decided on before
> implementation... or it will probably never get in.
As I recall, it was decided long ago, and the conclusions were:
* Only BSD-compatibly licensed code goes in PostgreSQL's code base,
and
* PostgreSQL will only support the SQL:2003 standard WITH (RECURSIVE)
syntax in the main line code.
Cheers,
D
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