> I don't think anybody has written the syntactic sugar, but someone did
> write a function that provides equivalent output.
I think it is important that the funcionality lies in the database
engine itself: In that way it can more efficiently make use of the
optimizer.
Also, I think this "recursive" feature is *the* most important upcoming
improvements: Currently there are simply no efficient way of fetching
linked structures, which however is quite common in many areas.
Regards
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