Re: Numbering rows - Mailing list pgsql-general

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Numbering rows
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Msg-id 20081016052120.GA25000@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Re: Numbering rows  ("Richard Broersma" <richard.broersma@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Numbering rows  ("David Rowley" <dgrowley@gmail.com>)
Re: Numbering rows  ("Richard Broersma" <richard.broersma@gmail.com>)
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am  Wed, dem 15.10.2008, um 12:23:42 -0700 mailte Richard Broersma folgendes:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:08 PM, ries van Twisk <pg@rvt.dds.nl> wrote:
> > May be this function can help :
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-srf.html
>
> Using generate series won't number the rows that way that you would
> want.  You basically will end up with a cross join between the
> generated series and the requested set.   There are three ways that I
> know of to get a row number:
>
> 1) IIRC use a pl-pgsql function that returns an incremented number
> 2) use SQL by joining using the operator ">=" and Group by aggregate count(*)
> 3) 8.4 has sum new analytic functions that will do this nicely.

Can you show an example for 8.4?

Andreas
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