doc: clarify recursion internal behavior

Reported-by: Drew DeVault

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211018091720.31299-1-sir@cmpwn.com

Backpatch-through: 10
pull/139/head
Bruce Momjian 3 years ago
parent 5527b79cc0
commit 3eef32c58b
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      doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml

@ -2172,9 +2172,8 @@ SELECT sum(n) FROM t;
<note>
<para>
Strictly speaking, this process is iteration not recursion, but
<literal>RECURSIVE</literal> is the terminology chosen by the SQL standards
committee.
While <literal>RECURSIVE</literal> allows queries to be specified
recursively, internally all queries are evaluated iteratively.
</para>
</note>

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