Re: getting count for a specific querry - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: getting count for a specific querry
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Msg-id 20050408163039.GE27718@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: getting count for a specific querry  (Ragnar Hafstað <gnari@simnet.is>)
Responses Re: getting count for a specific querry  ("Joel Fradkin" <jfradkin@wazagua.com>)
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:17:45PM +0000, Ragnar Hafstað wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 11:07 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > 
> >     SELECT count(*) FROM tablename WHERE condition LIMIT n;

> the LIMIT clause limits the number of rows returned by the select,
> in this case 1 row.
> 
> maybe you mean something like:
> 
> test=# select count(*) from (select * from a limit 2) as foo;

Yes, that was stupid of me.  That's what I meant, though.

A

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