On 5/30/07, Trigve Siver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you point me to some sources or give me some examples, please?
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ROWNUM() RETURNS BIGINT AS $$ BEGIN RETURN NEXTVAL('ROWNUM_SEQ'); EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN CREATE TEMP SEQUENCE ROWNUM_SEQ; RETURN NEXTVAL('ROWNUM_SEQ'); END; $$ LANGUAGE 'PLPGSQL'; SELECT ROWNUM(), S.X FROM GENERATE_SERIES(5,1,-1) S(X); Remember to reset the sequence value if you use this more than once in the same session. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match