From: Kumar <sgnerd@yahoo.com.sg>
To: psql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: SQL Query for Top Down fetching of childs
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:41:18 +0530
Message-ID: <00ad01c3e62e$b70ccf60$7502a8c0@hdsc.com> (raw)
Dear Friends,
Postgres 7.3.4 on RH Linux 7.2.
I need a query to get the Childs of a parent (Top down analysis). Need to list all the departments(Childs) of a parent organization. The table structure is
CREATE TABLE organization
(
entity_id int4,
entity_name varchar(100),
entity_type varchar(25),
parent_entity_id int4,
) WITH OIDS;
A parent can have n number of Childs. So I need to list all the childs for a parent.
For example I query the Division , then it lists it Childs
# select * from organization where parent_entity_id = 3;
entity_id | entity_name | entity_type | parent_entity_id
-----------+-------------+-----------------+------------------
5 | HR | EngineeringTeam | 3
12 | PM | EngineeringTeam | 3
8 | Finance | Dept | 3
6 | Quality | Dept | 3
I need to drill down to the last level Engineering Team in this example.
So I query entity_id 8 further, it gives me its Childs
=# select * from organization where parent_entity_id = 8;
entity_id | entity_name | entity_type | parent_entity_id
-----------+-------------+-------------+------------------
15 | Audit | Group | 8
16 | Mkt | Group | 8
(2 rows)
Again, I need to query the entity_id 15 to get its child
=# select * from organization where parent_entity_id = 15;
entity_id | entity_name | entity_type | parent_entity_id
-----------+-------------+-----------------+------------------
17 | CA | EngineeringTeam | 15
18 | Comm | EngineeringTeam | 15
19 | EComm | EngineeringTeam | 15
(3 rows)
I have used the following query, but not useful.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION.fn_get_all_organization(int4)
RETURNS SETOF organization AS
'DECLARE
pi_entity_id ALIAS FOR $1;
rec_result organization%ROWTYPE;
rec_proc organization%ROWTYPE;
v_patent_entity_id INT;
BEGIN
FOR rec_result IN SELECT entity_id, entity_name, entity_type, parent_entity_id FROM organization ben
WHERE ben.parent_entity_id = pi_entity_id
LOOP
IF rec_result.entity_type = \'EngineeingTeam\' THEN
RETURN NEXT rec_result;
ELSE
v_patent_entity_id := rec_result.entity_id;
LOOP
FOR rec_proc IN SELECT bse.entity_id, bse.entity_name, bse.entity_type, bse.parent_entity_id FROM organization bse
WHERE bse.parent_entity_id= v_patent_entity_id
LOOP
IF rec_proc.entity_type = \'EngineeringTeam\' THEN
RETURN NEXT rec_proc;
ELSE
v_patent_entity_id := rec_proc.entity_id;
END IF;
END LOOP;
EXIT WHEN rec_proc.entity_type = \'EngineeringTeam\';
END LOOP;
END IF;
END LOOP;
RETURN;
END;'
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
Anybody pls help me with this. I am first time writing these kind of function for TOP DOWN analysis. Please shed light.
Regards
Senthil Kumar S
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