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"Doing graph traversal in an RDBMS is beyond painful. Every edge you traverse typically comprises of one query." You mean MySQL doesn't do transitive closure?
by davidmathers 18y ago
"Doing graph traversal in an RDBMS is beyond painful. Every edge you traverse typically comprises of one query."
You mean MySQL doesn't do transitive closure? Sounds like a product problem, not a relational database problem.
- jrockway 18y agoI think he means graphs with cycles.
- davidmathers 18y agoMy graph-fu is weak. If it's not too much time could you give me an example of something that can't be done with a transitive closure statement?