On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 11:50:30 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote: > > Perhaps the issue is not knowing how many records there are. Solvable by >>>> doing a count(), but then you're making two queries (to get the count, and >>>> then to get the records). >>>> >>> >>> If limitby(0, 10) followed by slicing off the last record via [:-1] gets >>> you the records you want, then so does limitby(0, 9) with no slicing, >>> regardless of the overall record count. >>> >>> Anthony >>> >> >> What you say is true, but I took limitby(0,10) to be a specific example, >> and that the general case was the real question, where you don't know how >> many records are involved. >> > > I don't see a "general case" related to this particular issue that would > require knowing the total record count (unless the general case is that the > database does not support *descending *orderby). > > Perhaps I was making the problem harder than I needed to, and overthinking the OP.
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