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From: Stephen Tahmosh <stahmosh@shieldsrx.com>
To: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: query based on row number for psql8.3
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:57:30 +0000
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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sargent
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 2:27 PM
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] query based on row number for psql8.3



On 03/23/2016 12:00 PM, Emi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For psql8.3, is there a simple way to query based on row number please?
>
> For example,
>
> select  case
>                     when row_num=1 THEN    t1.tot_hr
>                     ELSE t1.tot_hr - t1.pre_hr
>           END
> FROM  t1 ;
>
>
>
>
>
I seem to recall other posts from condordia:  Someone needs to take of
their skates and update postgres!

[ST]
I'm not  sure if this link works, as I don't have access to 8.3
http://postgresql.nabble.com/How-to-realize-ROW-NUMBER-in-8-3-td4328448.html

If this works, then wrap the query with a main query that uses "rownum" in the case statement.

STeve



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