Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with SMTP id KAA24442 for postgres-dist; Thu, 24 Mar 1994 10:44:33 -0800 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199403241844.KAA24442@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.149.14]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with ESMTP id KAA24433 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 1994 10:44:33 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.1B) with SMTP id KAA01101; Thu, 24 Mar 1994 10:44:10 -0800 Message-Id: <199403241844.KAA01101@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) To: Dave Scott Cc: POSTGRES@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: transitive closure Reply-To: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 24 Mar 1994 14:08:16 GMT <0097BEA7.B37DEFE0.7763@vaxd.dct.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 10:44:10 -0800 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-dist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 10:44:33 -0800 Resent-XMts: smtp Dave Scott writes: > does Postgres 4.1 not support the transitive closure > command "*" as suggested on page 6 of the "Postgres Data Model" ? > If not, is it supported in the new version? support for "retrieve *" etc. was added around 1990 by an MSc student but was not stable enough to be released. that's my guess, anyway; we still have his code in the RCS logs but it's not plugged into the rest of the system. you are more than welcome to the code (two files) if you feel up to integrating it. -- Paul M. Aoki | CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB | aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU | Berkeley, CA 94720 | ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki