You might look on our contrib/ltree module
(http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/ltree)
Oleg
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> Can you query a set of nested entries to simulate a heirarchial system with a
> single query?
>
> I'm building a nested category table with a definition like below"
>
> CREATE TABLE category (
> id serial,
> parent integer not null,
> title varchar);
>
> Idea is that we can "nest" categories so that we have
>
> id parent title
> ----------------------------------------------
> 1 0 Clothing
> 2 1 Shirts
> 3 1 Pants
> 4 1 Socks
> 5 4 Male
> 6 4 Silk
>
> So that, for example, id 6 would be
>
> Clothing -> Socks -> Silk.
>
> So far, I've only been able to derive this with 3 queries - 1 to get the
> parent for id #6 (Silk) another to get the parent for id #4 (Socks) and
> finally for id #1 (Clothing) and since parent ==0 I stop.
>
> This seems wasteful - can this be done in a single query?
>
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Regards, Oleg
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