On Nov 13, 2007 10:54 PM, Merlin Moncure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> maybe or maybe not, but here is one way to do it:
>
> create or replace function parent(foo) returns foo as
> $$
> select parent(foo) from foo where id = ($1).parent_id
> union all
> select $1
>
On Nov 13, 2007 3:35 PM, Steve Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Given a table which includes tree-type information consisting of an id
> and a parent_id, is there an already existing function that will return
> the path to the top of the tree for a given record?
>
> The connectby function from
Given a table which includes tree-type information consisting of an id
and a parent_id, is there an already existing function that will return
the path to the top of the tree for a given record?
The connectby function from the contrib tablefuncs does what I want for
a whole table, but I haven'
