Well gee, I suppose you could consider writing some sort of rewrite rule.
Why not just ask your users to not do that?
Joshua b. Jore
http://www.greentechnologist.org
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Wim wrote:
> Thanx for the fast response!
>
> Can I apply this to a user profile?
> If my users type SELECT * FROM table... they should see only 1000 records...
>
> Thanx!
>
> Duncan Adams (DNS) wrote:
>
> >u could use.
> >
> >select * from <table> limit 1000 offset 2000;
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Wim [mailto:wdh@belbone.be]
> >Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:47 AM
> >To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> >Subject: [NOVICE] Limiting number of records to show.
> >
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have a table with over 1.000.000 records. I'd like to limit the
> >maximum number of records to display, so if one my users opens the whole
> >table, he will see only for example 1000 records.
> >If I don't limit and they open the whole table, the server's CPU-load
> >raises to 150...
> >I searched the docs, but couldn't find the info....
> >
> >Is this possible? If yes, how do I do this?
> >
> >Thanx!
> >
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