Re: Serial number of a record

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:40:25AM -0400, ashok(at)kalculate(dot)com wrote:
> Suppose if i will fire a query "select Name from tablename where age=30".
> it will give output "shyam" but i also want record no. other then oid, in
> this case it is 3.
>
> is it possible?
> if yes then how?
> plz. help me.

This depends. Does the record have a serialno field? If not, you
can do it with a temporary sequence. But you should be aware that
this "serial number" as you call it changes from result to result in
that case.

A

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