From: | Efraín Déctor <efraindector(at)motumweb(dot)com> |
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To: | "David Johnston" <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Renumber table rows |
Date: | 2012-06-06 21:25:30 |
Message-ID: | 428552E443704946AFB814B29A9951EB@CMOTUM25PC |
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Thank you. It really worked.
From: David Johnston
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 3:17 PM
To: 'Efraín Déctor' ; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Renumber table rows
Try something along the lines of:
UPDATE operador SET idoperador = new_idoperador
FROM (
SELECT idoperador AS old_idoperador, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY idoperador) AS new_idoperador
FROM operador
) lookup
WHERE operador.idoperador = lookup.old_idoperador;
The basic ideas is to create a lookup table and use it in via a FROM clause attached to the UPDATE.
David J.
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Efraín Déctor
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:27 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [GENERAL] Renumber table rows
Hello.
I have a table that his primary key is not ordered is something like this:
1 - a
12 - b
123 - c
etc.
I want to do an update to make it like this
1 – a
2 – b
3 – c
I tried this:
UPDATE operador SET idoperador=(SELECT row_number() OVER (ORDER BY idoperador) from operador)
But it returns this error: more than one row returned by a subquery used as an expression and I know that is because the substring returns more than one row, but how can I use the subquery to perform the update?.
Thank you in advance
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