Da Martian wrote:

But to return all the rows just to count them requires N calls to
step. If the data set is large you only want to return a subset to
start with. So you wouldnt know the count. If you dont know the
count, you cant update GUI type things etc..

I haven't been following this thread closely, but isn't this exactly the problem that Google "solves" by returning

     "Results 1 - 10 of about 9,940,000 for sqlite. (0.11 seconds)"

for a query with a very large result set? If Google can't do it with all the resources they have...

Martin

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