On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 14:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Oracle has a pseudo-column "ROWNUM" to return the sequence number in which a
> row was returned when selected from a table. The first row ROWNUM is 1, the
> second is 2, and so on.
>
> Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as Oracle? If so, we
> can write the following query:
>
> select *
> from (select RowNum, pg_catalog.pg_proc.*
> from pg_catalog.pg_proc) inline_view
> where RowNum between 100 and 200;
You can get a functional equivalent with a temporary sequence:
create temp sequence rownum;
select *, nextval('rownum') as rownum from sometable;
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