Re: [HACKERS] Reg: Nested query

Hi,

It's poor manners to crosspost questions to such a huge number of lists,
particularly when there is one among them that perfectly suits your
question.

Vignesh Raaj escribió:
> Can anyone please help in getting a solution...
> I have two table, 1 contains all details of a person with person id as
> primary key.
> the other table has person id and parent id both referring to person table
> person id.
> My query is i have to get all the parents of a given person name.
> Please help me in finding a query solution...

You can't do it short of writing a function that recurses, or using such
tricks as contrib/ltree.  In the upcoming 8.4 version you will be able
to write queries with the WITH RECURSIVE construct to handle this
directly in SQL.

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