Re: row numbering - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: row numbering
Date
Msg-id 1109429170.30529.212.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to row numbering  (josue <josue@lamundial.hn>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:44, josue wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> is there a way return a column with the row number automatically
> generated according the way the rows were processed by the query.
>
> For instance:
> select a,b from foo;
> a  b
> 20 yes
> 40 no
> 15 yes
>
> to something like:
>
> select counter(),a,b from foo;
> counter a  b
> 1    20 yes
> 2    40 no
> 3    15 yes

You could use a temporary sequence:

create temporary sequence counter;
select nextval('counter'),* from sometable;

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