Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:22 PM, David Kerr <d...@mr-paradox.net> wrote:
I know I've seen posts on how to do this, but i can't seem to find them.

I've got a data set

A, B
A, C
A, D
[...]

and so on

and i'd like to be able to wite a query that would result in

1,A,B
2,A,C
3,A,D
[...]

PG version is 8.3.

If you can upgrade to 8.4, you could use the row_number() window
function which is perfectly suited to this task, should be as simple
as:

SELECT row_number() OVER (), * FROM tablename;

Yes indeed. For a simple increment by one sequence, functions like rank() ... see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/functions-window.html ... are exactly what you want. -- Darren Duncan

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