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From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:13:08 -0500
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Subject: Re: Reporting by family tree
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Ibrahim Shaame <ishaame@gmail.com>,
 swastik Gurung <gurung_swastik@yahoo.com>,
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 9:55=E2=80=AFAM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 5:21=E2=80=AFAM Ibrahim Shaame <ishaame@gmail.com=
> wrote:
>>
>> But what I want to get is  grandfather - father - children:
>>
>> 1 - Grandfather1
>>
>> 3 - father1-1
>>
>> 6 - son1-1
>>
>> 7 =E2=80=93 son1-2
>>
>> 4 - Father1-2
>>
>> 8 - son2-1
>>
>> 2 =E2=80=93 Grandfather2
>>
>> 5 - Father2-1
>>
>> etc
>>
>>
>> Any suggestion
>>
>
> If you want a different ordering of the output change the ORDER BY specif=
ication.
>
> Specifically, you want to order by the path of each person.  Since that c=
an only be determined during the traversal you need to create the path data=
 yourself.  I suggest using an integer[] (integer array) to store the path =
using ID values as breadcrumbs.
>
>
(Not the OP just someone following the list trying to learn.)

'using ID values as breadcrumbs' - - - can I interpret that to mean
the ordinal numbers 1-8 listed (more implied)?

TIA