On Aug 23, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
An employee can only have 1 manager/supervisor but the hierarchy can be varying depths.
Traditionally, that's done by having a "supervisor" field as part of the employee record, with either NULL or a special marker value to indicate "no supervisor." The new WITH RECURSIVE functionality of 8.4 makes dealing with tree structures like this much easier.
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