Re: Use of the LIMIT clause ?

From: "pgsql-admin" <pgsql-admin(at)fc(dot)emc(dot)com(dot)ph>
To: bayet(at)enseirb(dot)fr
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Use of the LIMIT clause ?
Date: 2001-03-13 10:02:47
Message-ID: fc.000f567200a3bb2e000f567200a3bb2e.a3bb85@fc.emc.com.ph
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it's like
SELECT *
FROM :table
WHERE :condition
LIMIT :limit
OFFSET :offset

Sherwin

bayet(at)enseirb(dot)fr writes:
>I read on a website dedicated to MySQL, that the limit clause allows
>someone to restrict the result of a query to a certain domain.
>Exemple : "select id, title from movie order by id limit 3" -> only the
>(here, first) 3 lines of the table
>I did knew about this, but the author goes further about the "limit
>N,P", which allows someone to get only results between the Nth and Pth
>lines of the whole result...
>I tried this with psql, but couldn't get anything but parse errors.
>However, "\h select" does mention "LIMIT [count, all] {offset, START}"
>So, is it possible or not ? And what's the correct syntax ?
>
>Thanks
>
>
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