On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 02/06/2014 04:16 AM, Michael Sacket wrote:
>> Often times I find it necessary to work with table rows in a specific, generally user-supplied order. It could be
anythingreally that requires an ordering that can't come from a natural column. Most of the time this involved
manipulatinga position column from the client application. In any case, I've often found that to be cumbersome, but I
thinkI've come up with a solution that some of you may find useful.
>>
>
> Up until 9.4, that's a good way to do it.
>
> Starting from 9.4, you can use the WITH ORDINALITY feature.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-select.html
> --
> Vik
Even better! The development team is always making my work easier in unexpected ways.
Thanks!
