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

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;