Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:24:06AM -0700, Dennis Cote wrote: > >> As Nicolas said, SQL:1999 defines a standard method of doing this. It >> uses a WITH RECURSIVE clause as a prefix to a SELECT. It hasn't been >> widely implemented, but I believe that IBM's DB2 supports this mechanism. >> > > Ah, good to know. Would there be interest in supporting that in SQLite? > I think it'd be very useful (particularly given the populatiry of XML).
I could be mistaken, however, I believe that recursive triggers or recursive selects would be highly useful as a substitute for enforcing referential integrity, especially cascading deletes. John _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
