Re: SQL syntax rowcount value as an extra column in the result set

<font face="sans-serif" size="2">Hi,</font><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Is this what you are trying to
do?</font><br/><font face="sans-serif" size="2">postgres=# select * from (select count(*) from people ) p, (select
firstnamefrom people)p2;</font><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> count | firstname</font><br /><font
face="sans-serif"size="2">-------+-----------</font><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">     5 | Mary</font><br
/><fontface="sans-serif" size="2">     5 | Mary</font><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">     5 | John</font><br
/><fontface="sans-serif" size="2">     5 | John</font><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">     5 | Jacob</font><br
/><fontface="sans-serif" size="2">(5 rows)</font><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">I do not know about the
performanceimpact of such a query (cartesian join)</font><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Regards,</font><br
/><fontface="Trebuchet MS" size="2">Jayadevan</font><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><font color="#5f5f5f"
face="sans-serif"size="1">From:        </font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">"Snyder, James"
<jsnyde07@harris.com></font><br/><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">To:        </font><font
face="sans-serif"size="1"><pgsql-sql@postgresql.org></font><br /><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif"
size="1">Date:       </font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">26/03/2010 03:21</font><br /><font color="#5f5f5f"
face="sans-serif"size="1">Subject:        </font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">[SQL] SQL syntax rowcount value as an
extracolumn in the result set</font><br /><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Sent by:        </font><font
face="sans-serif"size="1">pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org</font><br /><hr noshade /><br /><br /><br /><font
face="Calibri"size="3">Hello</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">I’m using PostgreSQL (8.4.701) and Java
(jdbc,</font><fontsize="3"> </font><font face="Calibri" size="3">postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar) to connect to the
database.</font><p><fontface="Calibri" size="3">My question is: what is the SQL syntax for PostgreSQL to achieve the
following:</font><p><fontface="Calibri" size="3">I want to receive the rowcount along with the rest of a result set.
Forexample, let’s say the following query returns</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">select first_name from
people;</font><p><fontface="Calibri" size="3">first_name</font><p><font face="Calibri"
size="3">=========</font><p><fontface="Calibri" size="3">Mary</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">Sue</font><p><font
face="Calibri"size="3">Joe</font><p><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">and the following query returns the
value</font><fontsize="3"></font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">select count(*)as ROWCOUNT</font><font
size="3"></font><fontface="Calibri" size="3">from people;</font><p><font face="Calibri"
size="3">ROWCOUNT</font><p><fontface="Calibri" size="3">==========</font><p><font face="Calibri"
size="3">3</font><p><fontface="Calibri" size="3">3</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">What I’m looking for is the
outputas</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">ROWCOUNT ,  first_name</font><p><font face="Calibri"
size="3">=====================</font><p><fontface="Calibri" size="3">3 , Mary</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">3
,Sue</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">3 , Joe</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">so I can use JDBC (snip-it)
asfollows:</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">resultSet.getInt(“ROWCOUNT”)</font><p><font face="Calibri"
size="3">resultSet.getString(“first_name”)</font><p><fontface="Calibri" size="3">On a side note,</font><font size="3">
</font><fontface="Calibri" size="3">Oracle allows the following</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="Calibri"
size="3">syntaxto achieve the above:</font><p><font face="Calibri" size="3">select count(*) over ()</font><font
size="3"></font><fontface="Calibri" size="3">as ROWCOUNT</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="Calibri" size="3">,
first_name</font><fontsize="3"> </font><font face="Calibri" size="3">from people</font><p><font face="Calibri"
size="3">Thanks,Jim</font><p><fontface="sans-serif"></font><img
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