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From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Update ordered
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:56:12 -0800
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On 01/27/2014 06:36 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> Hi all.
> I want an UPDATE query to update my project's project_number in
> chronological order (according to the project's "created"-column) and
> tried this:
> with upd as(
>      select id from project order by created asc
> ) update project p set project_number = get_next_project_number() from
> upd where upd.id = p.id;
> However, the olders project doesn't get the smalles project_number.
> Any idea how to achive this?

That would seem to depend on what get_next_project_number() does, the 
contents of which are unknown.

> Thanks.
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