Re: [PERFORM] improvise callbacks in plpgsql

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:44:30PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> Can we get a link to this posted somewhere? I guess on techdocs?
>
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:45:02AM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > > Would you be willing to write up an example of this? We often get
> > asked
> > > about support for WITH, so I bet there's other people who would be
> > very
> > > interested in what you've got.
> >
> > Sure. In fact, I had already decided this to be the next topic on
> > my blog.  I'm assuming you are asking about tools to deal with
> > recursive sets in postgresql.  A plpgsql solution is extremely
> > fast, tight, and easy if you do it right...Tom's latest
> > suggestions (I have to flesh this out some more) provide the
> > missing piece puzzle to make it really tight from a classic
> > programming perspective.  I don't miss the recursive query syntax
> > at all...IMO it's pretty much a hack anyways (to SQL).

This might be worth putting in the docs somewhere.  Tutorial?

Cheers,
D
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