Re: [SQL] trivial problem - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Mathijs Brands
Subject Re: [SQL] trivial problem
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Msg-id 19991029163253.A20151@ilse.nl
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In response to trivial problem  (Frank Joerdens <frank@x9media.com>)
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On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 02:55:29PM +0200, Frank Joerdens allegedly wrote:
> this sounds as if there must be a rather trivial solution:
> 
> i am looking for the 50 rows with the largest value for a particular
> column. i could create a view with 
> 
> create view as select * from table order by column; 
> 
> and then somehow only retrieve the top 50 rows . . . but how?
> 
> thanks
> 
> frank
> 
> ************

Use limit?

Mathijs


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