# pgRouting Manual (3.0-rc1)

## Components - Family of functions

- pgr_connectedComponents - Connected components of an undirected graph.
- pgr_strongComponents - Strongly connected components of a directed graph.
- pgr_biconnectedComponents - Biconnected components of an undirected graph.
- pgr_articulationPoints - Articulation points of an undirected graph.
- pgr_bridges - Bridges of an undirected graph.

Previous versions of this page

- Supported versions: current(3.0) 2.6
- Unsupported versions: 2.5

## Parameters

Parameter | Type | Default | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
Edges SQL | `TEXT` |  | Inner query as described below.

## Inner query

Edges SQL: | an SQL query which should return a set of rows with the following columns:

Column | Type | Default | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
id | `ANY-INTEGER` |  | Identifier of the edge.
source | `ANY-INTEGER` |  | Identifier of the first end point vertex of the edge.
target | `ANY-INTEGER` |  | Identifier of the second end point vertex of the edge.

cost

`ANY-NUMERICAL`

Weight of the edge (source, target)

- When negative: edge (source, target) does not exist, therefore it’s not part of the graph.

reverse_cost

`ANY-NUMERICAL`

-1

Weight of the edge (target, source),

- When negative: edge (target, source) does not exist, therefore it’s not part of the graph.

Where:

ANY-INTEGER: | SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT
ANY-NUMERICAL: | SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT, REAL, FLOAT

## Result Columns

### pgr_connectedComponents & pgr_strongComponents

Returns set of `(seq, component, node)`

Column | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
seq | `BIGINT` | Sequential value starting from 1.
component | `BIGINT` | Component identifier. It is equal to the minimum node identifier in the component.
node | `BIGINT` | Identifier of the vertex that belongs to component.

### pgr_biconnectedComponents

Returns set of `(seq, component, edge)`

Column | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
seq | `BIGINT` | Sequential value starting from 1.
component | `BIGINT` | Component identifier. It is equal to the minimum edge identifier in the component.
edge | `BIGINT` | Identifier of the edge.

### pgr_articulationPoints

Returns set of `(node)`

Column | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
node | `BIGINT` | Identifier of the vertex.

### pgr_bridges

Returns set of `(edge)`

Column | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
edge | `BIGINT` | Identifier of the edge that is a bridge.

## See Also

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