Thread: Serial number of a record

Hi List,

I have one table something like this

Name          Age
=================
tom           20
ram           25
shyam         30
balram        15
hari          10

Now i want serial number of a record.
Suppose if i will fire a query "select Name from tablename where age=30".
it will give output "shyam" but i also want record no. other then oid, in
this case it is 3.

is it possible?
if yes then how?
plz. help me.

Thanks
Ashok

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On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:40:25AM -0400, ashok@kalculate.com wrote:
> Suppose if i will fire a query "select Name from tablename where age=30".
> it will give output "shyam" but i also want record no. other then oid, in
> this case it is 3.
> 
> is it possible?
> if yes then how?
> plz. help me.

This depends.  Does the record have a serialno field?  If not, you
can do it with a temporary sequence.  But you should be aware that
this "serial number" as you call it changes from result to result in
that case.

A

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