I use a recursive generic table expression to retrieve a sequence of sequence number. The following query works with Postgres, SQL Server and H2 (minus part VALUES).
WITH RECURSIVE t(n, level_num) AS (
SELECT next value for seq_parent_id as n,
1 as level_num
FROM (VALUES(0))
UNION ALL
SELECT next value for seq_parent_id as n,
level_num + 1 as level_num
FROM t
WHERE level_num < ?)
SELECT n FROM t
However, with HSQLDB 2.4.0 I get the following exception
java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: user lacks privilege or object not found: T
at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCUtil.sqlException(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCUtil.sqlException(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCStatement.fetchResult(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.jdbc.JDBCStatement.executeQuery(Unknown Source)
...
Caused by: org.hsqldb.HsqlException: user lacks privilege or object not found: T
at org.hsqldb.error.Error.error(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.error.Error.error(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.readTableName(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.readTableOrSubquery(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadTableReference(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadFromClause(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadTableExpression(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadQuerySpecification(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadSimpleTable(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadQueryPrimary(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadQueryTerm(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadSetOperation(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadQueryExpressionBody(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadQueryExpression(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadSubqueryTableBody(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadTableNamedSubqueryBody(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.XreadQueryExpression(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserDQL.compileCursorSpecification(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserCommand.compilePart(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.ParserCommand.compileStatements(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Session.executeDirectStatement(Unknown Source)
at org.hsqldb.Session.execute(Unknown Source)
... 37 more
This particular use case can also be resolved with a combination of UNNESTand SEQUENCE_ARRAY, but I would like to avoid having to enter a specific HSQLDB code path.
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