PostgreSQL, drag and swap

Question

I have successfully solved situation regarding swapping rows by value here what still work excellent.
But by using this function I see some lacks of functionality in mean of

Answer 1

Example 1:

update kalksad1 set brred=_brred
from (
  select
    row_number() over (
      order by brred<2 desc, brred=4 desc, brred>=2 desc, brred
    ) as _brred,
    kalk_id as _kalk_id
  from kalksad1
  where brkalk=2
  order by _kalk_id
) as _
where kalk_id=_kalk_id and brred!=_brred;

Example 2:

update kalksad1 set brred=_brred
from (
  select
    row_number() over (
      order by brred<4 desc, brred!=1 desc, brred>=4 desc, brred
    ) as _brred,
    kalk_id as _kalk_id
  from kalksad1
  where brkalk=2
  order by _kalk_id
) as _
where kalk_id=_kalk_id and brred!=_brred;

If you have unique index on (brkalk,brred) then it would be more complicated, as during renumbering there'll be duplicate brred.

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But for many rows I'd recommend using something which was very useful in the days of BASIC language on 8bit computers - number your rows with gaps.

So instead of:

(26, 2, 1, 'text index 26 doc 2 row 1'),
(30, 2, 2, 'text index 30 doc 2 row 2'),
(42, 2, 3, 'text index 42 doc 2 row 3'),
(43, 2, 4, 'text index 43 doc 2 row 4'),
(12, 2, 5, 'text index 12 doc 2 row 5'),

use:

(26, 2, 1024, 'text index 26 doc 2 row 1'),
(30, 2, 2048, 'text index 30 doc 2 row 2'),
(42, 2, 3072, 'text index 42 doc 2 row 3'),
(43, 2, 4096, 'text index 43 doc 2 row 4'),
(12, 2, 5120, 'text index 12 doc 2 row 5'),

Then your examples would just look like: