Re: placing position numbers on a query output

am  Wed, dem 11.04.2007, um 16:50:17 +0100 mailte Oliveiros Cristina folgendes:
> Hello, All,
>
> I would like to know if Postgres has a function similar to ROW_NUMBER().
> I would like that the output of a query looked something like this
>
>      column1   column2
> 1       x1              x2
> 2       y1              y2
> 3       z1              z2
> ...
>
> I suspect that my question has an easy and quick answer, but from my searches I
> couldn't find it yet :-(

You can do this either in the client-app or, for instance, with a
sequence like this:

test=# create table test (a text);
CREATE TABLE
test=*# insert into test values ('a');
INSERT 0 1
test=*# insert into test values ('c');
INSERT 0 1
test=*# insert into test values ('b');
INSERT 0 1
test=*# commit;
COMMIT
test=# create sequence s_test;
CREATE SEQUENCE
test=*# select nextval('s_test'), a from (select a from test order by 1)
foo;
 nextval | a
---------+---
       1 | a
       2 | b
       3 | c
(3 rows)


Andreas
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