[SQL] WITH RECURSION output ordering with trees

2009-07-10 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, I'm playing with the new WITH RECURSIVE feature of 8.4. I'm trying to figure out how to use it with trees. Here is the test code I use: - --DROP TABLE recursion; CREATE TABLE recursion ( id serial, lookup varchar(16), parent_id

Re: [SQL] WITH RECURSION output ordering with trees

2009-07-10 Thread Philippe Lang
pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org wrote: Hi, I'm playing with the new WITH RECURSIVE feature of 8.4. I'm trying to figure out how to use it with trees. Here is the test code I use: - --DROP TABLE recursion; CREATE TABLE recursion

Re: [SQL] WITH RECURSION output ordering with trees

2009-07-10 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Philippe Lang, 10.07.2009 11:10: Hi, I'm playing with the new WITH RECURSIVE feature of 8.4. I'm trying to figure out how to use it with trees. Here is the test code I use: I'd like to perform a real recursion, and show the tree structure in a more appopriate way, like this: Any idea how to

Re: [SQL] WITH RECURSION output ordering with trees

2009-07-10 Thread Philippe Lang
pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org wrote: Philippe Lang, 10.07.2009 11:10: Hi, I'm playing with the new WITH RECURSIVE feature of 8.4. I'm trying to figure out how to use it with trees. Here is the test code I use: I'd like to perform a real recursion, and show the tree structure in a

Re: [SQL] WITH RECURSION output ordering with trees

2009-07-10 Thread Harald Fuchs
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

Re: [SQL] WITH RECURSION output ordering with trees

2009-07-10 Thread Philippe Lang
pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org wrote: 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