Re: query to select a linked list

Hi Louis-David,

I also have written a forum application using PostgreSQL.

My schema has a "threadid" for each posting, which is actually also the
"messageid" of the first posting in the thread, but that is irrelevant.

I can then just select all messages belonging to that thread. The actual
hierarchy of messages (which posting is in response to which) is dealt
with by a "parentid", identifying the messageid of the post being
responded to. Sorting that out is done by the middleware (PHP in this
case) - the SQL query simply returns all messages in the thread in a
single query. Because our database is somewhat busy, I have opted to
keep the queries to the database simple and let the middleware sort
out the heirarchical structure (which it is quite good at).

I hope this helps.

Bob Edwards.

Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To build a threaded forum application I came up the following schema:
>
> forum
> ------
> id_forum | integer| not null default nextval('forum_id_forum_seq'::regclass)
> id_parent| integer|
> subject | text | not null
> message | text |
>
> Each message a unique id_forum and an id_parent pointing to the replied
> post (empty if first post).
>
> How can I build an elegant query to select all messages in a thread?
>
> Thanks,
>
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