WITH RECURSIVE PATH (cnt, aoid, aoguid, aolevel, fullname) AS ( SELECT ao.id as cnt, ao.aoid, ao.aoguid, ao.aolevel, ao.shortname || ' ' || ao.formalname AS fullname FROM "ADDROBJ" AS ao WHERE aolevel = 1 AND actstatus = TRUE AND livestatus = TRUE AND nextid IS NULL UNION SELECT child.id as cnt, child.aoid, child.aoguid, child.aolevel, PATH.fullname || ', ' || child.shortname || ' ' || child.formalname AS fullname FROM "ADDROBJ" AS child , PATH WHERE child.parentguid = PATH.aoguid AND actstatus = TRUE AND livestatus = TRUE AND nextid IS NULL ) SELECT p.cnt, p.aoid, p.fullname, length(p.fullname)-length(replace(p.fullname, ' ', '')) as wordcount FROM PATH p WHERE p.AOLEVEL NOT IN (1, 3)