From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Order of "WITH RECURSIVE" output
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 03:44:35 +0200
Message-ID: <200907070344.36084.andreak@officenet.no> (raw)
Hi all.
Take this example from src/test/regress/sql/with.sql:
WITH RECURSIVE subdepartment(level, id, parent_department, name) AS
(
-- non recursive term
SELECT 1, * FROM department WHERE name = 'A'
UNION ALL
-- recursive term
SELECT sd.level + 1, d.* FROM department AS d, subdepartment AS sd
WHERE d.parent_department = sd.id
)
SELECT * FROM subdepartment ORDER BY name;
level | id | parent_department | name
-------+----+-------------------+------
1 | 1 | 0 | A
2 | 2 | 1 | B
3 | 3 | 2 | C
3 | 4 | 2 | D
4 | 6 | 4 | F
(5 rows)
If I omit "ORDER BY", is the output *guaranteed* (according to some standard) to be ordered in "hierarchy"-order, meaning each parent-department is always output before its respective child, or do I have to calculate a "level" column (like in the example above) and specify "ORDER BY LEVEL" to be 100%?
I'm using WITH RECURSIVE as sub-queries to build up arrays of parents in each output-row and would like as little overhead as possible and hence avoid unnecessary sorting.
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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
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