MonetDB recursive CTE (common table expressions) - recursion

Question

It seems MonetDB does not support recursive CTE. This is a useful feature that I used to get BOM from ERP systems. For a greater flexibility I used Firebird recursive stored procedures to enhance the output with extra calculations. A good example of SQLServer recursive CTE can be found here https://www.essentialsql.com/recursive-ctes-explained/
Question is: Is it any way I can achieve similar results in MonetDB?

Answer 1

There is currently no support for recursive CTEs in MonetDB[Lite]. The solution you have proposed yourself seems like the way to go.

Answer 2

It is clear that once I have access to procedures, variables and while-loop, something can be done. The following code provides me the desired result using temporary tables. I would appreciate if anybody can provide me an alternative to this solution that provides the same results without using the temporary tables overhead.
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE BOM (parent_id string, comp_id string, qty double) ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS;
INSERT INTO BOM VALUES('a','b',5), ('a','c',2), ('b','d',4), ('b','c',7), ('c','e',3);
select * from BOM;
+-----------+---------+--------------------------+
| parent_id | comp_id | qty |
+===========+=========+==========================+
| a | b | 5 |
| a | c | 2 |
| b | d | 4 |
| b | c | 7 |
| c | e | 3 |
+-----------+---------+--------------------------+
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE EXPLODED_BOM (parent_id string, comp_id string, path string, qty double, level integer) ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS;
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE UPDATE_BOM()
BEGIN
DECLARE prev_count int;
DECLARE crt_count int;
DECLARE crt_level int;
delete from EXPLODED_BOM; --make sure is empty
insert into EXPLODED_BOM select parent_id, comp_id, parent_id||'-'||comp_id, qty, 0 from BOM; --insert first level
SET prev_count = 0;
SET crt_count = (select count(*) from EXPLODED_BOM);
SET crt_level = 0;
-- (crt_level < 100) avoids possible infinite loop, if BOM is malformed
WHILE (crt_level < 100) and (crt_count > prev_count) DO
SET prev_count = crt_count;
insert into EXPLODED_BOM select e.parent_id, a.comp_id, e.path||'-'||a.comp_id, a.qty*e.qty, crt_level+1
from BOM a, EXPLODED_BOM e
where a.parent_id = e.comp_id and e.level=crt_level;
-- is it any chance to get the amount of "affected rows" by insert, update or delete statements, this way I can avoid checking the new count?
SET crt_count = (select count(*) from EXPLODED_BOM);
SET crt_level = crt_level +1;
END WHILE;
END;
call UPDATE_BOM();
select * from EXPLODED_BOM;
+-----------+---------+---------+--------------------------+-------+
| parent_id | comp_id | path | qty | level |
+===========+=========+=========+==========================+=======+
| a | b | a-b | 5 | 0 |
| a | c | a-c | 2 | 0 |
| b | d | b-d | 4 | 0 |
| b | c | b-c | 7 | 0 |
| c | e | c-e | 3 | 0 |
| a | d | a-b-d | 20 | 1 |
| a | c | a-b-c | 35 | 1 |
| a | e | a-c-e | 6 | 1 |
| b | e | b-c-e | 21 | 1 |
| a | e | a-b-c-e | 105 | 2 |
+-----------+---------+---------+--------------------------+-------+