There's a patch to mimic Oracle's CONNECT BY queries. You can get it at the Postgres Cookbook site:
http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres/cookbook.
(although it seems to be down at the moment...)
On Jan 9, 2004, at 2:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everybody!--------------------
Does someone know how to build hierarchical queries to the postgresql?
I have a table with tree in it (id, parent) and need to find a way from any point of the tree to any other point. And i would like to have a list of all steps from point A to point B to make some changes on each step (this is required by the algorythm).
Here is an example: treetable (where tree is stored): id parent data int4 int4 varchar(255) 0 0 root 1 0 root's chield 1 2 0 root's chield 2 3 1 root's chield 1 chield 1 4 1 root's chield 1 chield 2 5 2 root's chield 2 chield 1 6 2 root's chield 2 chield 2
And i want to get something like this: start point "root's chield 2 chield 2" finish "root's chield 1 chield 1"
And the result i need: id parent data 6 2 root's chield 2 chield 2 2 0 root's chield 2 0 0 root 1 0 root's chield 1 4 1 root's chield 1 chield 2
i know that it is possible in Oracle but what about postgres?
Best regards, Anton Nikiforov
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