Re: [INTERFACES] limiting the rows selected in postgresql

From: A James Lewis <james(at)vrtx(dot)net>
To: Sergio <ser(at)perio(dot)unlp(dot)edu(dot)ar>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] limiting the rows selected in postgresql
Date: 1998-11-09 22:06:11
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.93.981109220507.10626A-100000@vr1-workhorse1.vrtx.net
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I did this with:-

declare tmp cursor for select * from table;fetch forward 10 in tmp;

But if someone else has a better way, please let me know....

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Sergio wrote:

> Sferacarta Software <sferac(at)bo(dot)nettuno(dot)it> el da Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:33:06
> +0100, escribi:
>
> >Hello Radhakrishnan,
> >
> >luned, 9 novembre 98, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >RCV> how can i limit the number of rows obtained from a select statement
> >RCV> in postgreSQL to say, 10 rows while the select condition actually
> >RCV> matches more than that. in oracle we can use the ROW_NUM variable
> >RCV> for this purpose but now i met such an issue with postgreSQL
> >
> >On v6.4 you can specify a limit for queries as:
> >
> >set QUERY_LIMIT TO '10';
> >To have only the first 10 rows from a select;
>
> this will limit _all_ the querys, right ?
> wich is not very flexible.
>
> I can't do something like
>
> select * from news order by news_date limit 10
>
> ?
>
> Sergio
>
>

James (james(at)linuxrocks(dot)co(dot)uk)
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