Re: Selecting a specific row - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Selecting a specific row
Date
Msg-id 1091659141.27166.143.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Selecting a specific row  ("Cason, Kenny" <kenny.cason@boeing.com>)
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On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 16:11, Cason, Kenny wrote:
> Is there an easy way to select, say, the 15th row in a table? I can't
> use a sequence number because rows will sometimes be deleted resulting
> in the 15th row now being a different row. I need to be able to select
> the 15th row regardless of whether it is the same 15th row as the last
> select.

SQL itself has no natural ordering, so I'll assume you're doing
something like this:

select * from table order by seq_field

Just add offset and limit to the end:

select * from table order by seq_fields limit 1 offset 15;



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