From: Philippe Lang <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: WITH RECURSION output ordering with trees
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:10:36 +0200
Message-ID: <E6A0649F1FBFA3408A37F505400E7AC215CE67@email.attiksystem.ch> (raw)
Hi,
I'm playing with the new "WITH RECURSIVE" feature of 8.4. I'm trying to
figure out how to use it with trees.
Here is the test code I use:
---------------------------------------------------------
--DROP TABLE recursion;
CREATE TABLE recursion
(
id serial,
lookup varchar(16),
parent_id integer,
primary key(id),
foreign key(parent_id) references recursion(id)
);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(1, 'a1', NULL);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(2, 'b11', 1);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(645, 'c111', 2);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(823, 'c112', 2);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(243, 'c113', 2);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(6, 'b12', 1);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(845, 'c121', 6);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(583, 'c122', 6);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(9, 'b13', 1);
INSERT INTO recursion VALUES(10, 'c131', 9);
WITH RECURSIVE parse_tree (depth, id, lookup, parent_id) AS
(
SELECT
0,
parent.id,
parent.lookup,
parent.parent_id
FROM recursion AS parent
WHERE parent_id IS NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT
parent.depth + 1,
child.id,
child.lookup,
child.parent_id
FROM parse_tree parent, recursion AS child
WHERE child.parent_id = parent.id
)
SELECT * FROM parse_tree;
---------------------------------------------------------
Here is the result:
depth | id | lookup | parent_id
-------+-----+--------+-----------
0 | 1 | a1 |
1 | 2 | b11 | 1
1 | 6 | b12 | 1
1 | 9 | b13 | 1
2 | 645 | c111 | 2
2 | 823 | c112 | 2
2 | 243 | c113 | 2
2 | 845 | c121 | 6
2 | 583 | c122 | 6
2 | 10 | c131 | 9
I'd like to perform a real recursion, and show the tree structure in a
more appopriate way, like this:
depth | id | lookup | parent_id
-------+-----+--------+-----------
0 | 1 | a1 |
1 | 2 | b11 | 1
2 | 645 | c111 | 2
2 | 823 | c112 | 2
2 | 243 | c113 | 2
1 | 6 | b12 | 1
2 | 845 | c121 | 6
2 | 583 | c122 | 6
1 | 9 | b13 | 1
2 | 10 | c131 | 9
Any idea how to do that? (without trying to sort on the lookup column,
whose values can be random outside this test)
Best regards,
Philippe Lang
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