Re: Takes too long to fetch the data from database - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:07:31 +0530,
  soni de <soni.de@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please provide me some help regarding how could I use cursor in following
> cases? :
>
> I want to fetch 50 records at a time starting from largest stime.
>
> SELECT * FROM wan ORDER BY stime LIMIT 50 OFFSET 81900;

Something like the following may be faster:
SELECT * FROM wan ORDER BY stime DESC LIMIT 50;