SQL Find all direct descendants in a tree
I have a tree in my database that is stored using parent id links.
A sample of what I have for data in the table is:
id | name | parent id ---+-------------+----------- 0 | root | NULL 1 | Node 1 | 0 2 | Node 2 | 0 3 | Node 1.1 | 1 4 | Node 1.1.1| 3 5 | Node 1.1.2| 3
Now I would like to get a list of all the direct descendants of a given node but if none exist I would like to have it just return the node itself.
I want the return for the query for children of id = 3 to be:
children -------- 4 5
Then the query for the children of id = 4 to be:
children -------- 4
I can change the way I am storing the tree to a nested set but I don't see how that would make the query I want possible.
 In new PostgreSQL 8.4 you can do it with a CTE :  
WITH RECURSIVE q AS
        (
        SELECT  h, 1 AS level, ARRAY[id] AS breadcrumb
        FROM    t_hierarchy h
        WHERE   parent = 0
        UNION ALL
        SELECT  hi, q.level + 1 AS level, breadcrumb || id
        FROM    q
        JOIN    t_hierarchy hi
        ON      hi.parent = (q.h).id
        )
SELECT  REPEAT('  ', level) || (q.h).id,
        (q.h).parent,
        (q.h).value,
        level,
        breadcrumb::VARCHAR AS path
FROM    q
ORDER BY
        breadcrumb
See this article in my blog for details:
PostgreSQL 8.4 : preserving order for hierarchical query   In 8.3 or earlier, you'll have to write a function:  
CREATE TYPE tp_hierarchy AS (node t_hierarchy, level INT);
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fn_hierarchy_connect_by(INT, INT)
RETURNS SETOF tp_hierarchy
AS
$$
        SELECT  CASE
                WHEN node = 1 THEN
                        (t_hierarchy, $2)::tp_hierarchy
                ELSE
                        fn_hierarchy_connect_by((q.t_hierarchy).id, $2 + 1)
                END
        FROM    (
                SELECT  t_hierarchy, node
                FROM    (
                        SELECT  1 AS node
                        UNION ALL
                        SELECT  2
                        ) nodes,
                        t_hierarchy
                WHERE   parent = $1
                ORDER BY
                        id, node
                ) q;
$$
LANGUAGE 'sql';
and select from this function:
SELECT  *
FROM    fn_hierarchy_connect_by(4, 1)
 The first parameter is the root id , the second should be 1 .  
See this article in my blog for more detail:
PostgreSQL  Update:
To show only the first level children, or the node itself if the children do not exist, issue this query:
SELECT  *
FROM    t_hierarchy
WHERE   parent = @start
UNION ALL
SELECT  *
FROM    t_hierarchy
WHERE   id = @start
        AND NOT EXISTS
        (
        SELECT  NULL
        FROM    t_hierarchy
        WHERE   parent = @start
        )
 This is more efficient than a JOIN , since the second query will take but two index scans at most: the first one to make sure to find out if a child exists, the second one to select the parent row if no children exist.  
发现了一个以我想要的方式工作的查询。
SELECT * FROM
   ( SELECT id FROM t_tree WHERE name = '' ) AS i,
   t_tree g
WHERE
  ( ( i.id = g.id ) AND 
       NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM t_tree WHERE parentid = i.id ) ) OR
  ( ( i.id = g.parentid ) AND 
       EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM t_tree WHERE parentid = i.id ) )
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