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neilc on May 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Are Commercial Databases Worth It?

> CONNECT BY PRIOR on the other hand can be a life saver.

FWIW, the latest beta release of PostgreSQL supports recursive queries (using the SQL standard WITH RECURSIVE rather than CONNECT BY, but still).

jaxn on May 1, 2009 [–]

Thanks for the tip!

The list of features that justify using a commercial database keeps getting shorter each year.

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