Re: PLEASE help ME , HOW TO GENERATE PRIMARY Keys on the fly

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:11:26PM +0700, andi wrote:
> select rank() over(order by testeridpk ) as rank , * from tester;
> 
> I get the result is like this, 
> 
> 
> RANK   TESTERIDPK       TESTER_NAME
> 
> 1     10                TESSS
> 
> 2     90                NAMAAA
> 
> 3     100               UUUUUUUU
> 
> 
> How in postgres sql I get the same result , please help me, because iam
> really frustating with this duty.

There's no built in for that that I know of.  You could use a
temporary sequence to do it:

BEGIN;
CREATE SEQUENCE tempseq;
SELECT nextval('tempseq') as rank, testeridpk, tester_name FROM testersORDER BY testeridpk;
ROLLBACK;

which, I _think_, will get you what you want (i.e. that's not
tested).  The ROLLBACK is just there to clean up the sequence.

A

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