Re: jdbc cursor positioning

From: Dave Cramer <Dave(at)micro-automation(dot)net>
To: Toby <toby(at)paperjet(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: jdbc cursor positioning
Date: 2002-10-07 00:48:55
Message-ID: 1033951736.20053.0.camel@inspiron.cramers
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No, postgres fully supports cursors, the problem must be somewhere else.

Dave
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 15:27, Toby wrote:
> as i understand it, postgres doesn't yet support cursors. however, with the
> LIMIT and OFFSET modifiers in a SELECt you can get the same behaviour.
>
> SELECT <fields> FROM <table> ORDER BY <field> LIMIT <recsPerPage>
> OFFSET <offset>
>
> <fields> is the fields to select
> <table> is the table you're selecting from
> <recsPerPage> is an integer 1..n for the number of records per page.
> <offset> is calculated as ((page - 1) * recsPerPage) where the page number
> is 1..n
>
> make sure you order your select by something, else the records in a page
> may not quite make sense.
>
> toby

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