Re: increment row number function question

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On 10/07/06 18:47, Matthew Peter wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply. Even if such a function existed, it would
>> almost certainly not do what you want in this query. Per SQL
>> spec, the SELECT target list is logically supposed to be
>> evaluated before the ORDER BY and LIMIT steps, which means you'd
>> get numbers associated with the physical ordering of the rows not
>> their some_col ordering.
>
> Shucks. I wanted to return a set with an ordered iterator
> determined by the ORDER BY. Could that be done? regards, tom lane

A stored procedure should do the trick, no?

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