I am salivating over the new WITH RECURSIVE ... SELECT ... syntax (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-select.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/

I am salivating over the new WITH RECURSIVE ... SELECT ... syntax (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-select.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-select.html). There's a very hairy piece of C++ code in my group's codebase that grinds over a certain schema to perform a certain transitive closure, and if I can redo that operation in SQL, we might be able to change its status from "only godlike programmers may dare touch this code" to "only demigodlike programmers may dare touch this code".