From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Cc: Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc/queries.sgml: add missing comma
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 21:58:16 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:18:42PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 07:58:04PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On 18.08.22 20:10, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > Thus:
> > > > Strictly speaking, this process is iteration, but <literal>RECURSIVE</literal>
> > > > is the terminology chosen by the SQL standards committee."
> > > >
> > > > Because the above sounds just fine, I'd argue that if one does leave "not
> > > > recursion" it should be set off by a comma.
> > > I went with new wording, which should make this even clearer; patch
> > > attached.
> >
> > I think this whole note is a bit misleading, like the SQL people don't know
> > what recursion is. The point is that the query is defined recursively. The
> > evaluation process is iterative. Those two are not contradictions.
>
> Okay, makes sense. Here is an updated patch.
Patch applied back to PG 10.
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