From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgsql: doc: clarify recursion internal behavior
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 13:24:14 +0200
Message-ID: <f88a4e74-8cb2-0f0f-622f-6bcff0c17ec4@enterprisedb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1oUIQF-001AWC-Dh@gemulon.postgresql.org>
References: <E1oUIQF-001AWC-Dh@gemulon.postgresql.org>
On 03.09.22 03:58, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> doc: clarify recursion internal behavior
- Strictly speaking, this process is iteration not recursion, but
- <literal>RECURSIVE</literal> is the terminology chosen by the SQL
standards
- committee.
+ While <literal>RECURSIVE</literal> allows queries to be specified
+ recursively, internally all queries are evaluated iteratively.
Is that true? Surely there is some recursive behavior in the executor.
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