Re: auto-increment in a view

On 03/09/2009 17:22, Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out to generate a auto-increment column in a view.
> There is no physical column to base it on, the view contains a group
> by clause, which renders that impossible.
> In a normal query i can create a sequence for that purpouse and drop
> it afterwards, but apart form it being ugly, it's impossible in a
> view.

Just a wild notion, but would the generate_series function be any use to
you?

  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-srf.html

HTH,

Ray.


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