limit 0,10 within SELECT ..... FROM ......

From: Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Paul Ottar Tornes" <critical(at)tiscali(dot)no>
Cc: Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: limit 0,10 within SELECT ..... FROM ......
Date: 2002-11-01 14:21:06
Message-ID: 15810.36306.101194.503590@kelvin.csl.co.uk
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Probably because you're really wanting to do:

SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat
FROM nyheter ORDER BY desc LIMIT 10, 0

(i.e. got the arguments the wrong way round) It's much more intuitive
to use the "LIMIT n OFFSET m" syntax.

Lee.

Paul Ottar Tornes writes:
> I run PostgreSQL and have some questions:
>
>
> How come
> $query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 0,10";
> Does not display any posts in my news script, but
> $query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 10";
> Shows the last 10.?
>
> And:
>
> How come
> $query = "SELECT id, tittel, dato, kilde, referat FROM nyheter order by id desc limit 10,20";
> Displays posts 5 to 14, and not 10 to 20?!
>

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