Re: Getting data where select has a limit criteria - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Getting data where select has a limit criteria
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Msg-id 20060112200344.GA55632@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Getting data where select has a limit criteria  (Kashyap Jani <kjani@cognitronics.com>)
Responses Re: Getting data where select has a limit criteria  (Kashyap Jani <kjani@cognitronics.com>)
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:48:08AM -0500, Kashyap Jani wrote:
>    I am trying to issue a query like "SELECT * from <some table> limit 
> 30". In psql command line interface it displays only 30 rows at a time. 

With LIMIT 30 psql should display only 30 rows altogether ("30 rows
at a time" suggests that you're getting more than 30 rows -- are
you?).

> How will it behave if I use libpq. Is it going to return me only 30 rows ?

If you put LIMIT 30 in the query then you should get at most 30
rows.  What happened when you tried it?

-- 
Michael Fuhr


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