On 5/30/07, Trigve Siver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you point me to some sources
or give me some examples, please?
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ROWNUM() RETURNS BIGINT AS
$$
BEGIN
RETURN NEXTVAL('ROWNUM_SEQ');
EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN
CREATE TEMP SEQUENCE ROWNUM_SEQ;
RETURN NEXTVAL('ROWNUM_SEQ');
END;
$$
LANGUAGE 'PLPGSQL';
SELECT ROWNUM(), S.X
FROM GENERATE_SERIES(5,1,-1) S(X);
Remember to reset the sequence value if you use this more than once in
the same session.
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