In article <e6a0649f1fbfa3408a37f505400e7ac215c...@email.attiksystem.ch>,
"Philippe Lang" <philippe.l...@attiksystem.ch> writes:

> Thanks for your answer. Si there a built-in function that would allow
> generating the sort path based on the value of the lookup column,
> instead of the id, which has no meaning at all?

> If yes, we would get instead:

>  depth | id  | lookup | parent_id
> -------+-----+--------+-----------
>      0 |   1 | a1     |
>      1 |   2 | b11    |         1
>      2 | 645 | c111   |         2
>      2 | 823 | c112   |         2
>      2 | 243 | c113   |         2
>      1 |   6 | b12    |         1
>      2 | 845 | c121   |         6
>      2 | 583 | c122   |         6
>      1 |   9 | b13    |         1
>      2 |  10 | c131   |         9

Try this:

WITH RECURSIVE parse_tree (depth, id, lookup, parent_id, path) AS (
  SELECT 0, parent.id, parent.lookup, parent.parent_id, parent.lookup::text
  FROM recursion AS parent
  WHERE parent_id IS NULL
UNION ALL
  SELECT parent.depth + 1, child.id, child.lookup, child.parent_id,
         parent.path || '.' || child.lookup
  FROM parse_tree parent
  JOIN recursion AS child ON child.parent_id = parent.id
)
SELECT depth, id, lookup, parent_id
FROM parse_tree
ORDER BY path


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