Re: Question about restricting the number of rows returned

hi steve,

i believe the syntax would be:
"SELECT columns
FROM myTable
WHERE myConditions = conditions
LIMIT 50";

additionally, if you'd want to select rows 51 to 100 i think the last
line would read:
OFFSET 50 LIMIT 50

take care,
tuna chatterjee

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 15:03, Stephen Ingram wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If I am running a query I know could return 1000's of rows;
> is there a PG way to say to just return the first, say, 50 rows?
>
> cheers
>
> steve
>
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