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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: James Robinson <jlrobins@socialserve.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Utility of recursive queries?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:07:56 -0700
Message-ID: <200404090907.56630.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EF02401A-8A32-11D8-8620-000A9566A412@socialserve.com>
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James,

> Would recursive queries be the trick to doing things like unwinding a
> linked-list to either the head or tail, with:

Yes.  Also check out contrib/ltree and contrib/tablefunc in your handy-dandy 
PostgreSQL source code.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco



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