Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:44:30 -0600
From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Merlin Moncure <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] improvise callbacks in plpgsql
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Can we get a link to this posted somewhere? I guess on techdocs?

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > Would you be willing to write up an example of this? We often get
> asked
> > about support for WITH, so I bet there's other people who would be
> very
> > interested in what you've got.
> 
> Sure. In fact, I had already decided this to be the next topic on my
> blog.  I'm assuming you are asking about tools to deal with recursive
> sets in postgresql.  A plpgsql solution is extremely fast, tight, and
> easy if you do it right...Tom's latest suggestions (I have to flesh this
> out some more) provide the missing piece puzzle to make it really tight
> from a classic programming perspective.  I don't miss the recursive
> query syntax at all...IMO it's pretty much a hack anyways (to SQL).   
> 
> Merlin
> 
> 
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