Actually, i have a method to solve this problem. But i really want to know, we have to write more statement to do one thing?
First step, we have to create 2 sequence. Let call them "foo" and "foo1". create sequence foo; create sequence foo1; then, you can run below statement, and you will see the result that is we want. select setval('foo',1); select setval('foo1',1); select id, score, class from ( select id, score, ph1.class , sequence1, sequence2, CASE WHEN ph1.cc > 5 THEN ph3.sequence + 4 ELSE ph3.sequence + ph1.cc - 1 END as tail from (select class, count(*) as cc from allscore group by class) as ph1 join (select id, class, score, nextval('foo') as sequence1, currval('foo') as sequence2 from (select * from allscore order by class, score desc) as t2) as ph2 on (ph1.class = ph2.class) join (select distinct on (class) class, nextval('foo1'), currval('foo1') as sequence from ( select id , score , class from allscore order by class, score desc) as t6) as ph3 on (ph2.class = ph3.class) order by ph1.class , score desc ) as con where sequence2 <= tail; -- http://alumni.cyut.edu.tw Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly