Re: [GENERAL] count and limit

2006-08-19 Thread Fabio Victora Hecht
Ok, so I think the best that can be done is to EXPLAIN the query and check if it's gonna take long. If it is, I could use the estimated count. Thanks, FabioOn 8/17/06, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Fuhr wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:34:44AM +1000, Chris wrote: Fabio Victora Hecht

[GENERAL] count and limit

2006-08-17 Thread Fabio Victora Hecht
Hi!I've been using Postgresql for a while now and I'm very satisfied.I was wondering if there's a way to count the results of a query and return part of the result set it in one query (LIMIT). Because I usually have to count the results using one query (to tell the user how many records match the

Re: [GENERAL] count and limit

2006-08-17 Thread Chris
Fabio Victora Hecht wrote: Hi! I've been using Postgresql for a while now and I'm very satisfied. I was wondering if there's a way to count the results of a query and return part of the result set it in one query (LIMIT). Because I usually have to count the results using one query (to tell

Re: [GENERAL] count and limit

2006-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fabio Victora Hecht wrote: I was wondering if there's a way to count the results of a query and return part of the result set it in one query (LIMIT). I was going to suggest a cursor but I don't think you can get the number of results a cursor has :( In

Re: [GENERAL] count and limit

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:34:44AM +1000, Chris wrote: Fabio Victora Hecht wrote: I was wondering if there's a way to count the results of a query and return part of the result set it in one query (LIMIT). Because I usually have to count the results using one query (to tell the user how many

Re: [GENERAL] count and limit

2006-08-17 Thread Chris
Tom Lane wrote: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fabio Victora Hecht wrote: I was wondering if there's a way to count the results of a query and return part of the result set it in one query (LIMIT). I was going to suggest a cursor but I don't think you can get the number of results a cursor