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Author Re: Recursive use
Chris Browne

2006-10-25, 8:24 am

burbello3000@yahoo.com.br (Alexander Burbello) writes:
> Hi people,
>
> I need to know if Postgres do recursive search and how can I do!
> I will explain my problem.
>
>
> table COOPERATIVE
> code_cooperative int
> code_coo_father int
>
> I can have 3 level by business rules
>
> 1 - Father
> ----- 2 - Children
> --------- 3 - Grandchildren
>
>
> I would like to have a query asking who is father and granfather
> select grandfather, father from COOPERATIVE where COD_COOPERATIVE = 3
>
> Do the Postgres can solve this problem?
> Could anybody help me?


There was a proposal to implement WITH RECURSIVE for PostgreSQL 8.2;
that fell by the wayside.

The task is on the ToDo list:

<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html>
Add SQL:2003 WITH RECURSIVE (hierarchical) queries to SELECT

At present, you may simulate this by writing a pl/pgsql function that
does the recursion in procedural code.
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