On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:22 PM, David Kerr <dmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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; -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
