Re: WITH RECUSIVE patches 0723

>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
Gregory> I just wonder where all these examples of real-world queriesGregory> were when I posted this patch and asked
forsuch feedbackGregory> originally. sigh.
 
Gregory> In any case I think we've already made this decision. If weGregory> wanted the 80% solution it was ready for
Postgres8.3. ItGregory> wouldn't make much sense to skip it then but put it in nowGregory> when that there's time to
finishit and a lot of the work'sGregory> already done.
 

I wasn't paying much attention in the 8.3 development phases so I have
no idea what patch you had then.

The patch under review is for WITH RECURSIVE, not just for WITH, and it
handles a large enough proportion of the use-cases for recursive queries
(I've never seen a requirement for mutual recursion in the wild, though
I've several times had to kludge around pg lack of recursion support)
that I think it should be included in 8.4 either as-is, or with whatever
improvements are possible between now and release.

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)