From: | David Blankley <david(at)blankley(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Dynamic Offset Determination |
Date: | 2005-07-13 15:28:29 |
Message-ID: | 20050713151014.P23754-100000@hallsofworlds.com |
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Problem Statement:
I want to return n rows from a table.
These n rows are relative to an offset.
The part I can't figure out:
The offset needs to be determined from values in the rows.
Example:
Given a table foo:
CriteriaCol integer
OrderedCol integer
I can figure out the number of rows
SELECT COUNT(CriteriaCol) FROM foo;
How do I determine the offset?
SELECT {rownum?} FROM foo WHERE CriteriaCol = SomeValidValue;
With the rownum I can then determine the rows I want.
SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY OrderedCol LIMIT 21 OFFSET (rownum-10);
Don't worry about boundary conditions, functions, etc, I can sort that out
once I know how to get the offset.
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Searching the forums, the one potential hack I've found is:
Quote from: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2003-04/msg00287.php
create temp sequence foo;
select nextval('foo'), * from
(select ... whatever ... order by something) ss;
drop sequence foo;
Presumably I would get my ordinal value from the sequence before dropping
it.
This seems like it would be a potentially slow process. Also, this
solution dates to 2003, so I thought it worth asking in case a better
solution has come along.
Thanks for suggestions/solutions
Dave
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