There is a website somewhere where a guy posts his patch he is maintaining that does it. I'll try to find it...
Found it. Check it out:
http://gppl.terminal.ru/index.eng.html
Patch is current for 7.4, Oracle syntax.
Chris
I had a look at the patch.
It is still in development but it seems to work nicely - at least I have been able to get the same results with Oracle.
I will try it with a lot of data this afternoon so that we can compare Oracle vs. Pg performance. I expect horrible results ;).
Does this patch have a serious chance to make it into Pg some day?
I think Oracle's syntax is not perfect but is easy to handle and many people are used to it. In people's mind recursive queries = CONNECT BY and many people (like me) miss it sadly.
If this patch has a serious chance I'd like to do some investigation and some real-world data testing.
Regards,
Hans
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