Re: Add a ROWCOUNT to the output of a select.

Oops!
Of course, I meant a sequence.

*Robins*

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Harald Fuchs <hari(dot)fuchs(at)googlemail(dot)com>
wrote:

> In article <36af4bed0805131818p147bb440oa4c1944939e3b313(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>,
> "Robins Tharakan" <tharakan(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
> > While we could always check for the query performance reasons, I
> > rather think that this is an overkill for the purpose of mere line
> > numbers.
>
> > If such queries don't change frequently, you could be better off
> > using a simple function that instead adds a 'rownumber' field to the
> > output of the inner SQL query. The 'rownumber' could instead be
> > calculated by simply incrementing it within a FOR loop for each row.
>
> I think a sequence is much simpler:
>
> create temp sequence tmp;
> select nextval('tmp') as rownum,
> contactdate
> from
> myTable
> where
> contactdate > '2007-06-30 23:59:59'
> order by
> contactdate;
>
>
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