Re: WITH RECUSIVE patches 0723

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:49:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> writes:
> > "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom> That whole business of using the EState to pass tuplestores back
> > Tom> and forth looks fundamentally broken to me anyway; there's just
> > Tom> no way it'll be certain to link the right nodes together in
> > Tom> complicated cases with multiple recursions.
>
> > Mutual recursion is not allowed;
>
> Well, the spec allows it, so we're going to have to fix this kluge
> sooner or later, even if it chances not to fail on the subset we
> currently support.

Any ideas how to approach this?

Cheers,
David.
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