How to filter SQL results in a has-many-through relation

Question

Assuming I have the tables student, club, and student_club:

student {
    id
    name
}
club {
    id
    name
}
stude         


        

Answer 1

WITH RECURSIVE two AS
    ( SELECT 1::integer AS level
    , student_id
    FROM tmp.student_club sc0
    WHERE sc0.club_id = 30
    UNION
    SELECT 1+two.level AS level
    , sc1.student_id
    FROM tmp.student_club sc1
    JOIN two ON (two.student_id = sc1.student_id)
    WHERE sc1.club_id = 50
    AND two.level=1
    )
SELECT st.* FROM tmp.student st
JOIN two ON (two.student_id=st.id)
WHERE two.level> 1

    ;

This seems to perform reasonably well, since the CTE-scan avoids the need for two separate subqueries.

There is always a reason to misuse recursive queries!

(BTW: mysql does not seem to have recursive queries)