Re: Question about restricting the number of rows

On Wednesday 20 February 2002 04:05 pm, Mo Holkar wrote:
> At 20:03 20/02/02, Steve 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?
>
> Like this:
>
> SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 50;
>
> If you wanted rows 51-100 you'd use
>
> SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 50 OFFSET 50;
>
> and in general LIMIT n OFFSET m will return rows from m+1 to m+n inclusive.
>
> Bear in mind though that for 'the first 50' to be meaningful you'll likely
> have to be using an ORDER BY clause.
>
> best,
>
> Mo
>

Thanks Mo (and everyone).

I was using a distinct in my case and the results are
just what I need! =:o)

steve

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