On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:09:32PM +0200, Rainer Bauer wrote:
> Anyway, what Phoenix is trying to say is that 2 queries are required: One to
> get the total count and one to get the tuples for the current page. I reckon
> it would help, if the query returning the result set could also report the
> total no. of tuples found. Somthing like
> SELECT COUNT(*), * FROM <table> WHERE <cond> OFFSET <o> LIMIT <l>
Well, thee is another possibility, use cursors:
DECLARE CURSOR ... AS <query>;
FETCH 30 -- or however many to want now
MOVE TO END -- or whatever the command is, this gives you the number of rows
Hope this helps,
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