Gah, I'm dreadfully sorry. The original functions were cut-and-pasted
from a "\df+" window, which meant they lost their quoted-ness, which
means if you try to cut and paste from my message to a SQL prompt,
you'll be sorely disappointed. Below are the edited versions.
create table rank_of_values
I hope this helps someone else ... I had struggled some time ago with
attempts to get a rank of values query to work, but then I gave up and
set it aside. I had another reason to attack it, and in between then and
now I learned how to return "setof" values from a function, as well as
how to con
