Coldfusion CFScript Query with MySQL Assignment Operator - mysql

Question

I want to select currentrow as part of my query - I know I can loop over queries and get the currentrow variable, but I'm doing a QoQ before I use the rows and I want to keep the original rows, e.g.
//Original query
1, Audi
2, BMW
3, Skoda
//QoQ
1, Audi
3, Skoda
This is the code I've got:
q = new Query( datasource = application.db.comcar );
q.setSQL('
SELECT make, #rownum := #rownum +1 AS `rownumber`
FROM cars, ( SELECT #rownum :=0 )
LIMIT 10
');
r = q.execute().getResult();
But it's throwing the following error:
Parameter '=' not found in the list of parameters specified
SQL: SELECT make, #rownum := #rownum + 1 AS `rownumber` FROM cars, ( SELECT #rownum :=0 ) LIMIT 10
This will work in cfquery but I'd like to use it in CFScript. Is there an alternative to using := or some way of escaping this in the query.

Answer 1

It looks like this is a bug in Coldfusion. I could change my code to use cfquery but I'd rather not mix script and tags in my page.
So my workaround was is as follows:
/*
* based on the existing query 'tmpFields'
*/
// build array of row numbers
arrRowNumbers = [];
cntRowNumbers = tmpFields.recordCount;
for( r = 1; r <= cntRowNumbers; r++ ) {
arrayAppend( arrRowNumbers, r );
}
// add a new column with the new row number array
queryAddColumn( tmpFields, "fieldNumber", "integer", arrRowNumbers );