Re: Reporting by family tree

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 9:55 AM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 5:21 AM Ibrahim Shaame <ishaame@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> But what I want to get is  grandfather - father - children:
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>> 1 - Grandfather1
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>> 3 - father1-1
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>> 6 - son1-1
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>> 7 – son1-2
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>> 4 - Father1-2
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>> 8 - son2-1
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>> 2 – Grandfather2
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>> 5 - Father2-1
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>> etc
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>>
>> Any suggestion
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> If you want a different ordering of the output change the ORDER BY specification.
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> Specifically, you want to order by the path of each person.  Since that can only be determined during the traversal
youneed to create the path data yourself.  I suggest using an integer[] (integer array) to store the path using ID
valuesas breadcrumbs. 
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(Not the OP just someone following the list trying to learn.)

'using ID values as breadcrumbs' - - - can I interpret that to mean
the ordinal numbers 1-8 listed (more implied)?

TIA