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> See connectby() in contrib/tablefunc. Someone was working on SQL99 
> recursive queries but it didn't get done for 7.4 -- perhaps it will be 
> in 7.5. In the meantime, connectby() is in 7.3 and might work for you.

        Oracle 8i doesn't seem to have any special indexing to handle this 
efficiently.  Do you happen to know if PostgreSQL will have a special 
indexing option for this feature?  If it does, it will very likely provide a 
major performance advantage over Oracle.

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Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
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