Mark,
did you try
select * from table limit 5,10;
Or I misunderstood you
Oleg
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Mark Jewiss wrote:
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:17:03 +0100 (BST)
> From: Mark Jewiss <Mark.Jewiss@knowledge.com>
> To: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: [SQL] Limit rows
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm still thinking about ways to extract specific rows of data from a
> table, whilst ignoring others. i.e. I want to see rows 3-7 inclusive from
> a table.
>
> Assume that I don't have a numerical identifier - I do, but I can't use
> that as rows from this table may be deleted at some point, thereby
> knocking the id row out of sequence.
>
> Basically I want to be able to do something like this:
>
> select * from table ignore 10 limit 5;
>
> I can't use cursors, which are ideal for this I know.
>
> Is there such a thing in SQL or pgsql specifically? If not I'll have to
> write something....
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark.
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