Re: Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as Oracle? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as Oracle?
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Msg-id 20050517170636.GC12405@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as Oracle?  (<Dennis.Jiang@thomson.com>)
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:07:00PM -0600, Dennis.Jiang@thomson.com wrote:
> 
> Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as Oracle? If
> so, we can write the following query:

No.  What is the purpose of your query?  You could use ORDER BY and
LIMIT..OFFSET to do what you want. I think.

A

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