On Nov 9, 2011, at 20:19, Wes Cravens <wcrav...@cortex-it.com> wrote:
> I have an adjacency list kind of table > > CREATE TABLE thingy ( > id int, > parent int > ); > > I'd like to be able to write a procedural function that returns a row or > rows from this table with an appended field that represents the children. > > Something like this pseudo code: > > FOR row IN SELECT * FROM thingy > LOOP > RETURN NEXT row,[SELECT id FROM thingy WHERE parent_id = id] > END LOOP, > RETURN > > Any help much appreciated, > > Wes > Use "WITH RECURSIVE" instead of a function. David J. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
