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 anything really that requires an >> ordering that can't come from a natural column. Most of the time this >> involved manipulating a position column from the client application. In any >> case, I've often found that to be cumbersome, but I think I'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! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
