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In response to Re: LIMIT BASED ON PERCENT  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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But there is any way to do it?

2009/11/18 Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
Le mercredi 18 novembre 2009 à 20:24:09, Another Trad a écrit :
> No, It doesn't.
> In my machine:
>
> First select
> ERROR:  syntax error at end of input
> LINE 1: select * from rapadura.cliente limit 20%
>                                                 ^
> Second one:
> ERROR:  argument of LIMIT must not contain subqueries
>
> Postgres 8.3
>

It works for Lee because obviously he's working on a 8.4 server. You can use
subquery in a LIMIT clause if you have an 8.4 PostgreSQL server. For earlier
releases, there's no way to do this in a single query.


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