Re: Slow query: select * order by XXX desc offset 10 limit 10 - Mailing list pgsql-general

2011/10/14 Alexander Farber <alexander.farber@gmail.com>:
> Thank you -
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> you should to use a DECLARE statement
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/sql-declare.html
>> and fetch statement
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/sql-fetch.html
>
> I've managed to create a cursor
> and can fetch the data row by row:
>
> quincy=> start TRANSACTION;
> quincy=> declare XXX cursor for select to_char(qdatetime,
> 'YYYY-MM-DD') as
> QDATETIME,ID,NAME,CATEGORY,APPSVERSION,OSVERSION,DETAILS,DEVINFO from
> quincyview where qdatetime <= now() order by QDATETIME desc ;
> quincy=> fetch XXX;
> .....
> quincy=> fetch XXX;
> .....
>
> But how do I "go back"?
>
> For my jQuery HTML table (DataTables.net)
> I need to be able to go back and forth.
>
> Regards
> Alex

you can use a scrollable cursors.


BEGIN WORK;

-- Set up a cursor:
DECLARE liahona SCROLL CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM films;

-- Fetch the first 5 rows in the cursor liahona:
FETCH FORWARD 5 FROM liahona;

 code  |          title          | did | date_prod  |   kind   |  len
-------+-------------------------+-----+------------+----------+-------
 BL101 | The Third Man           | 101 | 1949-12-23 | Drama    | 01:44
 BL102 | The African Queen       | 101 | 1951-08-11 | Romantic | 01:43
 JL201 | Une Femme est une Femme | 102 | 1961-03-12 | Romantic | 01:25
 P_301 | Vertigo                 | 103 | 1958-11-14 | Action   | 02:08
 P_302 | Becket                  | 103 | 1964-02-03 | Drama    | 02:28

-- Fetch the previous row:
FETCH PRIOR FROM liahona;

 code  |  title  | did | date_prod  |  kind  |  len
-------+---------+-----+------------+--------+-------
 P_301 | Vertigo | 103 | 1958-11-14 | Action | 02:08

-- Close the cursor and end the transaction:
CLOSE liahona;
COMMIT WORK;

this example is from doc
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/sql-fetch.html

Regards

Pavel

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