Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> I've played with this a bit in the past, and concluded that the best way
> to do it (if in fact you agree it should be done at all), would be to
> add a rownum pseudo column as the results are projected from the backend
> to the frontend. I think this would require a change to the FE/BE
> protocol, which we've talked about doing for 7.4.
Considering that it can trivially be done on the client side, I think it
would be a hard sell to put such a wart into the protocol ...
regards, tom lane
