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On Jan 12, 2014, at 8:23 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> AFAIK, there is no way to do this in SQL.

Sounds like a job for window functions (aka analytic functions) [1][2].

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/tutorial-window.html
[2] =
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e26088/functions004.htm#SQL=
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