| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, chester c young <chestercyoung(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: rownum |
| Date: | 2003-02-14 16:21:04 |
| Message-ID: | 7746.1045239664@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> I've played with this a bit in the past, and concluded that the best way
> to do it (if in fact you agree it should be done at all), would be to
> add a rownum pseudo column as the results are projected from the backend
> to the frontend. I think this would require a change to the FE/BE
> protocol, which we've talked about doing for 7.4.
Considering that it can trivially be done on the client side, I think it
would be a hard sell to put such a wart into the protocol ...
regards, tom lane
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