| From: | "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz(at)pc10(dot)radnoti-szeged(dot)sulinet(dot)hu> |
| Cc: | Koen Antonissen <Koen(at)Cee-Kay(dot)net>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: enumerating rows |
| Date: | 2001-04-11 20:08:26 |
| Message-ID: | 200104112008.f3BK8Q211350@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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Kovacs Zoltan wrote:
>> Here is a method which is fairly cumbersome, but will do what you want.
>> (Whether what you want is useful, is another matter. The row numbers
>> have no meaning except to delineate which row is printed after which; they
>> bear no relation to their order in the table.)
>Thanks, Oliver! Are you sure there is no other (more
>convenient) solution? I don't think this is a part of the SQL standard but
>it could be a PostgreSQL extension. Hm?
I believe Oracle has an inbuilt feature to do this; I don't know about
any other database. Nor do I know if any other databases can accommodate
user-defined functions.
But what is the actual use of this feature? Why do you need it?
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