| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Janning Vygen <vygen(at)gmx(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: select a ranking |
| Date: | 2002-07-19 00:41:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20020719104131.B10333@svana.org |
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:29:10PM +0200, Janning Vygen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i do some ordering on a table and need a ranking by points from a
> table with names and points (see sample code at the end of the mail)
[snip]
> so heres is my question:
> is there an easier way to create a ranking?
Yep, in the presentation tool. Pseudo-code is:
For each row in result
print rownumber
print contents of row
Why do you want to do this in SQL when it's clearly not the right place for
it?
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
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