On Jan 14, 2008, at 3:58 AM, pepone.onrez wrote:

I have this query in a table with 150 thowsand tuples and it takes to long

    t_documentcontent._id AS _id
    FROM t_documentcontent LIMIT 50 OFFSET 80000


You want an ORDER BY there. Not only will it probably speed things up, without it there's no guaranteed order in the results returned.

As table records have no specific order and updates and inserts on that table take the first free position, you risk ending up showing some records twice in your set (same id on different 'pages') and missing others because you've already skipped past them when there's concurrent access.

There's still some risk for that if you order, but as you seem to order on a sequence-generated column, updates aren't a problem for you and inserts end up at the end anyway. But only if you order them.

Alban Hertroys

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