Re: [PATCHES] WITH RECURSIVE patch V0.1

> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:51:29PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > WITH RECURSIVE patch V0.1
> >
> > Here are patches to implement WITH RECURSIVE clause. There are some
> > limitiations and TODO items(see the "Current limitations" section
> > below). Comments are welcome.
> >
> > 1. Credit
> >
> > These patches were developed by Yoshiyuki Asaba (y-asab@sraoss.co.jp)
> > with some discussions with Tatsuo Ishii (ishii@sraoss.co.jp).
>
> This is really great!  Kudos to all who made this happen :)

Thanks. In addition to above, Sumitomo Electric Information Systems
Co., and SRA OSS, Inc. Japan made this happen.

I and Yoshiyuki Asaba are now in Ottawa to join PGCon. I hope to have
some discussions on this here with anyone who are interested in this.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

> I tried a bunch of different queries, and so far, only these two
> haven't worked.  Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
>
> WITH RECURSIVE t(n) AS (
>     SELECT 1
> UNION ALL
>     SELECT n+1
>     FROM t
>     WHERE n < 100
> )
> SELECT * FROM t;
> ERROR:  cannot extract attribute from empty tuple slot
>
> WITH RECURSIVE t(n) AS (
>     VALUES (1)
> UNION ALL
>     SELECT n+1
>     FROM t
>     WHERE n < 100
> )
> SELECT * FROM t;
> ERROR:  cannot extract attribute from empty tuple slot
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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