On: Writing a Package Manager

[jeremyjh]

You want to bring in a dependency to avoid writing one 8 line CTE?

[christophberger → jeremyjh]

The number of lines needed is not a good measure for gnarliness.

(To be fair, I don't know if gnarliness is measurable at all.)

[jeremyjh → christophberger]

It isn’t gnarly at all, but recursive CTE are outside the experience of most SQL devs. Here “gnarly” is used to describe “unfamiliar”.