Limit rows

From: Mark Jewiss <Mark(dot)Jewiss(at)knowledge(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Limit rows
Date: 1999-09-29 15:09:15
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.10.9909291608300.5608-100000@office.knowledge.com
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Hello,

I'm still thinking about ways to extract specific rows of data from a
table, whilst ignoring others. i.e. I want to see rows 3-7 inclusive from
a table.

Assume that I don't have a numerical identifier - I do, but I can't use
that as rows from this table may be deleted at some point, thereby
knocking the id row out of sequence.

Basically I want to be able to do something like this:

select * from table ignore 10 limit 5;

I can't use cursors, which are ideal for this I know.

Is there such a thing in SQL or pgsql specifically? If not I'll have to
write something....

Regards,

Mark.
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Mark Jewiss
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