| From: | "Jeff Hoffmann" <jeff(at)remapcorp(dot)com> |
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| To: | "PostgreSQL-development" <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] What about LIMIT in SELECT ? |
| Date: | 1998-10-13 19:23:35 |
| Message-ID: | 005101bdf6de$f9345150$c525c4ce@go-to-jail.remapcorp.com |
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>Hi, my 2 cents...
>
>I agree completely, LIMIT would be VERY usefull in web based apps, which
>is all I run. It does not matter to me if it is not part of a formal
>standard. The idea is so common that it is a defacto standard.
i'm not familiar with mysql and using "LIMIT" but wouldn't this same effect
be achieved by declaring a cursor and fetching however many records in the
cursor? it's a very noticeable improvement when you only want the first 20
out of 500 in a 200k record database, at least.
jeff
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