On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:50:37 -0400, Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:11:26PM +0700, andi wrote: > > select rank() over(order by testeridpk ) as rank , * from tester; > > > > I get the result is like this, > > > > > > RANK TESTERIDPK TESTER_NAME > > > > 1 10 TESSS > > > > 2 90 NAMAAA > > > > 3 100 UUUUUUUU > > > > > > How in postgres sql I get the same result , please help me, because iam > > really frustating with this duty.
The simplest solution is to add the rank information in your application as it reads the result set. > There's no built in for that that I know of. You could use a > temporary sequence to do it: > > BEGIN; > CREATE SEQUENCE tempseq; > SELECT nextval('tempseq') as rank, testeridpk, tester_name FROM testers > ORDER BY testeridpk; > ROLLBACK; > > which, I _think_, will get you what you want (i.e. that's not > tested). The ROLLBACK is just there to clean up the sequence. Rollbacks will not reset sequence values. Use setval to do that. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings