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CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE

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The CONNECT_BY_ISCYCLE pseudo column allows for detecting if the current row has a child which is also the row's ancestor.

SELECT child, parent, sys_connect_by_path(child, '/'), connect_by_iscycle FROM ( VALUES (1, null), (2, 1), (3, 2), (2, 3) ) AS t (child, parent) START WITH parent IS NULL CONNECT BY NOCYCLE PRIOR child = parent;
Field<Integer> child = field("child", INTEGER); Field<Integer> parent = field("parent", INTEGER); create.select( child, parent, sysConnectByPath(child, "/"), connectByIsCycle()) .from(values( row(val(1), val(null, INTEGER)), row(2, 1), row(3, 2), row(2, 3)).as(table("t"), child, parent)) .startWith(parent.isNull()) .connectByNoCycle(prior(child).eq(parent)) .fetch();

The result being, for example

+-------+--------+--------+--------------------+ | child | parent | path | connect_by_iscycle | +-------+--------+--------+--------------------+ | 1 | | /1 | 0 | | 2 | 1 | /1/2 | 0 | | 3 | 2 | /1/2/3 | 1 | +-------+--------+--------+--------------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

connectByIsCycle()

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Exasol, Informix, Oracle

connect_by_iscycle

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