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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:06:36 -0600
From: Don Drake <dondrake@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Don Drake <dondrake@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Determining Rank
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I have a query that shows the top N count(*)'s.

So it's basically:

select some_val, count(*) 
from big_table
group by some_val
order by count(*)
limit 50

Now, I would like to have the rank included in the result set.  The
first row would be 1, followed by 2, etc. all the way to 50.

I can do this in PHP, but stuffing it into the DB query makes other
things easier.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-Don

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