From: Jomon Skariah <jomons@aztec.soft.net>
To: Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: MINUS & ROWNUM in PostGres
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:14:58 +0530
Message-ID: <F83B457BE363174B8233DE042A1445705F6DA2@maya.aztec.soft.net> (raw)
Hi,
Do we have any replacement for REPLACE() of Oracle in PostGres?
I know we can function to do same job.
Regards
Jomon
-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Jurka [mailto:books@ejurka.com]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:52 PM
To: Rod Taylor
Cc: Jomon Skariah; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] MINUS & ROWNUM in PostGres
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Rod Taylor wrote:
> > 2 Also I need to find an alternative for ROWNUM in oracle..
>
> If you are looking for a unique identifier, try using the OID.
>
ROWID is oracle's unique identifier, ROWNUM is the row number in a query
result. In the past it has been suggested that ROWNUM could be replaced
by the nextval of a temporary sequence.
Kris Jurka
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