Re: sql questions

Zitat von hamann(dot)w(at)t-online(dot)de:

> a) I am running some select query
> select ... order by ....
> Now, I would like to preserver the ordering through further
> processing by adding a sequence number
> Of course I can do:
> create temp sequence mseq;
> select xx.*, nextval('mseq') as ord from (select ... order by ....) xx;
> drop sequence mseq;
> Is there a simpler way (avoiding the create/drop parts)

Can't you just do the ordering at the end of the processing? Maybe you
need to drag along the order by columns and just dump them at the very
end if applicable.

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