Re: [GENERAL] Row Nums - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Anand Surelia
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Row Nums
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Msg-id 361D0D8E.7DF185E@bytekinc.com
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In response to Row Nums  (Anand Surelia <anand@bytekinc.com>)
List pgsql-general
Jose' Soares wrote:

> Anand Surelia wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I want to display serial numbers of rows selected by a query. I can do
> > this in Oracle by selecting a special attribute called 'rownum' (or
> > 'rowno'). Can I do this in Postgres too? If not then is there any
> > alternative in Postgres?
> >
> SELECT oid, * FROM tablename;
>
> Jose'
>

No I dont't want the oids but the serial number of a row in the present
output of the query. For e.g in Oracle we have:
select rownum,name from tablename;

will give me,

rownum | name

1           | Anand
2           | Jose' Soares
3           | Someone

Thanks,
Anand.


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