Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F761337B9C for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:24:16 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94191-09 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:24:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:12:20.51094 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from oldperseverance.encs.concordia.ca (oldperseverance.encs.concordia.ca [132.205.96.94]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD351337B99 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:24:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from cacao.encs.concordia.ca (emilu@cacao.encs.concordia.ca [132.205.47.225]) by oldperseverance.encs.concordia.ca (envelope-from emilu@encs.concordia.ca) (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id p0QGBjm9015873 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:11:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4D4047C1.5030208@encs.concordia.ca> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:11:45 -0500 From: Emi Lu Reply-To: emilu@encs.concordia.ca User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: how to get row number in select query Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on oldperseverance.encs.concordia.ca at 2011/01/26 11:11:45 EST X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.51 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, SARE_BAYES_6x6=0.4, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201101/91 X-Sequence-Number: 35038 Good morning, For postgresql 8.3, what is the system method/key word to get row number please? E.g., ================== lname1 gname1 lname2 gname2 lname3 gname3 ...... I'd like to get 1 lname1 gname1 2 lname2 gname2 3 lname3 gname3 ... ... Something like select row_number?, lname, gname from Table1; Thanks a lot! -- Lu Ying