Re: Replacement for Oracle's "ROWNUM" in Postgres

On 19 Dec 2002 at 11:30, Bill Gribble wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:58, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> > This query is setting a date into a column for all the rows, starting with a
> > fixed date with 10 minutes intervals.
> >
> > UPDATE some_table
> > SET some_date_column = 'some_literal_date' + (ROWNUM / 144.0);
> One way:
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE dateseq;
>
> UPDATE some_table
> SET some_date_column = 'some_literal_date' +
>                        (nextval('dateseq') / 144.0)
>
> DROP SEQUENCE dateseq;

Or use OID..

Bye
 Shridhar

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