Re: [SQL] Limit rows

Mark,

did you try

select * from table limit 5,10;

Or I misunderstood you

Oleg

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Mark Jewiss wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:17:03 +0100 (BST)
> From: Mark Jewiss <Mark(dot)Jewiss(at)knowledge(dot)com>
> To: pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: [SQL] Limit rows
>
> 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.
> --
> Mark Jewiss
> Knowledge Matters Limited
> http://www.knowledge.com
>
>
>
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