On Feb 6, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 07/02/14 05:43, Michael Sacket wrote: >> On Feb 6, 2014, at 2:23 AM, Vik Fearing wrote: >> >>> On 02/06/2014 04:16 AM, Michael Sacket wrote: >>>> Often times I find it necessary to work with table rows in a specific, generally user-supplied order. It could be anything really that requires an ordering that can't come from a natural column. Most of the time this involved manipulating a position column from the client application. In any case, I've often found that to be cumbersome, but I think I've come up with a solution that some of you may find useful. >>>> >>> Up until 9.4, that's a good way to do it. >>> >>> Starting from 9.4, you can use the WITH ORDINALITY feature. >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-select.html >>> -- >>> Vik >> Even better! The development team is always making my work easier in unexpected ways. >> >> Thanks! >> >> > You do realize, that with this new feature, the licence fee for PostgreSQL will dramatically increase? :-) > > > Cheers, > Gavin Nope, I missed that. Still says free as far as I can find. :-) I did however find a donate button. I encourage others to find it too! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
