From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Rein Petersen <rp2969@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ANSI SQL-99 SYNTAX and "WITH"
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:02:28 -0500
Message-ID: <20040604200228.GA23948@wolff.to> (raw)
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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 15:37:41 -0400,
Rein Petersen <rp2969@hotmail.com> wrote:
> My research into PostgreSQL documentation has yet to yeild any information about PostgreSQL's support of ANSI SQL-99 syntax, and in particular, the "WITH" clause - which if I understand correctly, allows recursive joins in simple syntax without the use of cursors and/or otherwise klugey SQL.
>
> As you may have guessed, I hope PostgreSQL currently supports the "WITH" clause syntax or, will at least support it imminently.
Postgres doesn't currently support that. Someone was working on it a while
back, but I haven't heard anything lately, so I don't know if some version
of it is going to be in the next release.
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