On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 05:28, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: > Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > >> 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. >
Seems it has no chance of getting in as it is GPL'd code... so step one would be convincing him to relicense it. As a side note, I thought Joe Conway also had an implementation of this... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])