Re: Way to use count() and LIMIT?

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
To: "SHELTON,MICHAEL (Non-HP-Boise,ex1)" <michael_shelton(at)non(dot)hp(dot)com>
Cc: "'joe(at)jwebmedia(dot)com'" <joe(at)jwebmedia(dot)com>, "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Way to use count() and LIMIT?
Date: 2001-12-18 23:49:13
Message-ID: m3lmg0ytqe.fsf@varsoon.denali.to
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"SHELTON,MICHAEL (Non-HP-Boise,ex1)" <michael_shelton(at)non(dot)hp(dot)com> writes:

> Sorry I haven't been able to get back to you -- busy at work.
>
> One last comment to try is in MS SQL you can get the number of rows returned
> via @@ROW_COUNT -- however I couldn't find the equivalent for PG SQL
> (doesn't mean there isn't one).
>
> Anyone else know what might work here? The important detail is wanting to
> get a number of rows in the _result_ not necessarily the table.

libpq gives you this information via the PQntuples() function.
Whether PHP gives you access to that info I don't know--see your docs.

-Doug
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--T. J. Jackson, 1863

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