On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:56, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > I notice the CONNECT BY patch has been updated for 8.0:
> >
> > http://gppl.moonbone.ru/
> >
> > Seriously, we really need to get this into 8.1. Convert it to the
> > standard WITH RECURSIVE syntax if necessary...
>
> Yep, we are just waiting for someone to do the work.

Actually i believe people want both syntax's as the former is used by oracle
and the latter by db2 (iirc)

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Robert Treat
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Robert Treat wrote:
> Actually i believe people want both syntax's as the former is used by oracle
> and the latter by db2 (iirc)

I think the past consensus has been to adopt the SQL standard syntax. Is
there any reason to also support the Oracle syntax other than for
compatibility? (And if that is it, I think it's a pretty flimsy reason.)

-Neil

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