So long as you have a numerical identifier for the 'first' row you are
interested in you should be able to do something like:
SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE numerical_field>=23 ORDER BY
numerical_field LIMIT 5;
This will pick the row 23 and the next 4 rows regardless of any gaps in
the sequence.
HTH,
Stuart
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Mark Jewiss wrote:
> 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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