Re: Hierarchical queries a la Oracle patch. for 7.3rc1.

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 20:32, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > This is a pretty sizable patch, and there was discussion about it.  Tom,
> > > are you saying you will apply it with different syntax, or that you will
> > > do another implementation.
> >
> > A new implementation --- I don't think this is usable as is (at least
> > not the parser part; I haven't studied the executor part closely yet).
> > For one thing, it ignores the agreed-on TODO items:
> >     * Add SQL99 WITH clause to SELECT
> >     * Add SQL99 WITH RECURSIVE to SELECT
> >
> > We had the RHDB project meeting today and agreed that we'd work on this
> > (among other things) for 7.4.

Can you disclose RHDB projects's plans for 7.4, what are these other
things ?

> > You can put down Fernando Nasser and me
> > as the responsible developers for these TODO items.

Great.

> OK, TODO updated:
>
>     > * Add SQL99 WITH clause to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)
>     > * Add SQL99 WITH RECURSIVE to SELECT (Tom, Fernando)
>
> and Fernando's name was added to the bottom of TODO.
>
> OK, now who wants to tell Evgen?  Have we been fair with him?

I guess he can be proud of finally forcing Tom & co to do it ;)

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