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Hierarchical queries in PostgreSQL

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Note: this article concerns PostgreSQL 8.3 and earlier.

For hierarchical queries in PostgreSQL 8.4 and higher, see this article:

In one of the previous articles I wrote about using hierarchical queries in MySQL:

PostgreSQL has a contrib module to implement the same functionality.

However, it's not always possible to install and use contribs. Same is true for procedural languages.

Fortunately, this functionality can be implemented using a plain SQL function.

Let's create a sample table and see how it works:
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Written by Quassnoi

May 29th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

Posted in PostgreSQL